My way of working with groups shares the here-and-now approach of the Bioninspired Tavistock approach. However, I not only address issues of the groupas-a-whole, but offer interpretations to individual members, pairs of members, or subgroups within the group, depending on the material. This implies a constant shifting in perspective from a group focus to focusing on the individual members. Since the purpose of Tavistock groups is to provide a situation in which the participants learn about group dynamics, Tavistock trainers make interpretations of group phenomena with only an implicit concern with the dynamics of individual members. On the other hand, most psychoanalysts who run groups tend to carry their individual approach into the group setting, placing little emphasis on the group-as-a-whole. It is not easy for the therapist to keep both individual and group perspectives in mind simultaneously. This may be one of the underlying reasons why most group therapists do not make use of Bion's basic assumptions notion. Another reason may be a lack of familiarity with Melanie Klein's ideas, which are the springboard for Bion's basic assumptions. A brief overview of Klein's ideas and Bion's application of them to group life will be followed by an account of a group session. In that account, I hope to show how the anxieties of the group shift back and forth from paranoid-schizoid to depressive, and how these shifts, when properly understood and addressed, facilitate the emotional development of its members. According to Klein (1946), there are, both developmentally and throughout life, two fundamental states of mind: an early stage, which she calls paranoidschizoid, and a later one she calls depressive. The former is schizoid because the infant splits its world, both externally and internally into all good and all bad; it is paranoid because the bad is projected into its first object, the mother, who is consequently experienced as a persecutor. The depressive position is thus-called because the awareness of separation from the mother produces depressive feelings. In the course of normal development, the infant integrates its world and its ego so they are experienced as whole, neither all good or all bad, but a combination of the two. Whereas, in the paranoid-schizoid position, concern is with the survival of the self, in the depressive position, concern is focused on the mother and her wellbeing and, later on, on the wellbeing of others.