Abstract

This paper deals with relationships to authority and with authority-related patterns of relational disorders in group analysis, and thus at the same time with the topic of group leadership and authority and with a promising outline of a group analytic theory of disorders. With this theory of disorders as a focus, two experienced group analysts from different backgrounds look from their respective perspectives at group therapy under authoritarian social conditions and at contemporary group analysis. Social conditions influence the framework of groups and dynamic administration. However, different authority-related relational disturbances in group processes also emerge.

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