The Group as Therapist -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction Why Group Psychotherapy? -- Part 1 Perspectives on Group Analytic Therapy -- 1 A View of Psychotherapy -- 2 Models of Therapeutic Systems -- 3 The Group as Open System -- 4 Aspects of the Group Relationship -- 5 The Individual and the Group: Separateness and Belonging -- 6 The Group and Perception -- 7 The View from Different Perspectives -- 8 The Person of the Therapist: Science, Art and Intuition -- Part 2 Special Kinds of Groups -- 9 Groups with Psychotic and Borderline Personalities -- 10 The Multiple Family Therapy Group -- 11 The Case for the Therapeutic Community -- 12 The Couples Group -- 13 The Median Group -- Part 3 Ethics and the Group -- 14 Towards Ethical Relating -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.