Abstract
A Glimpse on Today's German Group Therapy Group therapy in its present form started in Germany (West) after World War II. The basic ideas came, mostly, from the US and from Britain. There were two developments, with two different tendencies each at the same time: in 1960, at the 10th Lindau Psychotherapy Weeks, group therapy was recognized as a therapy on one hand, and with the foundation of the Frankfurt Institute in the same year group therapy became a method of research, on the other. In 1967, opposite movements were created in so far as the analytical psychotherapy was included in the official health system on one side, and the DAGG was founded to serve as a platform for group analysts and for specialists of group dynamics on the other. The institutionalization of group therapy and the regional developments will be described by the example of a psychoanalytic institute in Berlin. On the basis of a decision taken in 2009 resp. in 2010, the DAGG will be restructured so that it will no longer remain a simple association of members, but will become a union of associations; each section will become an association of its own. This situation offers an opportunity to found a German Association for Group Analysis that would be able to hold together diverging tendencies. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to restart the controversial discussion that used to be led, for many years, inside the DGPT.
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