Group Psychotherapy - Concepts and Interpretation Techniques

The concept of group interpretation, arising from the opposition to the concept of individual interpretation, necessarily had in its origin a teleological character. Group would be the interpretation that benefits the group and not any of its components, in which case the interpretation would be individual, although done in a group. It is understood that only in theory are there interpretations that deserve, rigorously, the name of individual interpretations in groups. In fact, for an interpretation to reach only one of the components of a group, it would be essential that there is no intercommunication between the affected patient, the beneficiary, and the other components of the group. It has never been possible to observe groups in which such intercommunication did not exist entirely. It seems to us that it always exists in all groups, even those in which integration is minimal. Good integration, it is time to remember, presupposes intercommunication.