GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY - PSYCHOTHERAPY

In context with the current discussions about the legal regulation of a German therapeutic law, in which - according to the authors' opinion - the analytic group psychotherapy as well as other methods of group psychotherapy have not been paid their due attention, the project came into existence to try and draw up a scientific statement, comprehendi ng all schools and being interdisciplinary to the history, the sociolo gical fundamental principles and the effective mechanisms of group psy chotherapy. Anthropological, humanethologic and references of infant r esearch have been used to support the theories. An acknowledgement of the experts' report on questions regarding the German therapeutic law is followed by extracts of NORBERT ELIAS' figuration and civilization theories relevant to the analytic group psychotherapy, being confirmed by latest results on human ethology. After describing the genesis of illness from an analytic group psychotherapeutic point of view, differ ences and common grounds of the ''Gottinger Modell'' and the model of ''group analysis'' (FOULKES) are being examined. Finally, the investig ation is concluded by stating the effective mechanisms of the group an alytic psychotherapy, known from literature and own clinical experienc e. It is our intention to initiate the return of analytic group psycho therapy in practice as well as in the legal regulation to its due stat us.