RELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND GROUP-ANA LYSIS (FOULKES)

Group analysis claims, at least as far as I represent it, to research human development and misdevelopment. This requires the integrations o f varied individual sciences. Here I mention only medicine, psychology , theology, anthropology, ethnology, and last not least sociology. Gro up analysis sees man highly differentiated. Not only arts, but also na tural sciences such as biology or physics play an important tole when the figured interrelations of man are to be comprehended in their real ity. Surely, it is impossible for each practicing group analyst to acq uire this enormous range of knowledge by himself. Group analysis is on ly possible in an interdisciplinary manner, as in the case of psychoan alysis. I did not even describe the sociological background of group a nalysis sufficiently here; it is already difficult to overlook this fi eld. We should take every opportunity to further close exchange of the various sciences, whereby this should not be reduced to merely collec ting more knowledge, rather it should mean participating in ever new s urprising developments. Finally, I would like to quote VIKTOR VON WEIZ SACKER who, in a key sentence of his theory, said: '' Whoever wants to understand life must participate in life.''(1996)