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45 1 Formerly Consultant Psychotherapist, Cassel, St. George’s, and Maudsley Hospitals and Tavistock Clinic. Correspondence should be addressed to Malcolm Pines, MRCP, MRCPsych, DPM, 21 Dealtry Road, London sw15 6nl. E-mail: malcpines@btinternet.com. I am happy for the opportunity to re-view my article of 2000. I wrote the original paper at the age of 75, and now aged 90, I have a retrospective over what I’ve written then and what has been happening for the last 15 years in our increasingly war-ravaged and conflict-torn world. Shepherding group analysis is no longer my responsibility, but I enjoy the investigation to which this request has given rise. The work of Trigant Burrow has received a great deal of attention since the publication of Edie and Giorgio Pertegato’s (2013) book From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow. This book has stimulated a great deal of interest in Burrow and in the implications of his pioneering work. In my 2000 article, I wrote that Foulkes was unable to create a comprehensive deep theory based on his work. This has been remedied by several important publications. H. L. Behr and L. Hearst’s (2005) Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds provides a detailed, comprehensive account of group analysis, including history and specialized applications. The book by Tom Ormay (2012), The Social Nature of Persons: One Person Is No Person, provides a deep philosophical, psychological, and biological understanding of the nature of the human being, intrinsic relatedness, and how this leads to the evolution of group analytic psychotherapy. In late 2015, a very important monograph by my colleague and cowriter John Schlapobersky appeared, this time with him as the sole author (titled From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice). (Schlapobersky and I have written together in the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry; Pines & Schlapobersky, 2000.) It provides the deepest and most comprehensive text that has been written. I quote from some of the endorsements, which show how welcome his book is and that it will lay the standard down for many years to come:
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