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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 132, No. 11

REGULAR ARTICLES | November 01, 1975

History and analysis of a leaderless group of professional therapists

Am J Psychiatry 1975;132:1164-1167.

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The authors describe the experiences of a group of 11 psychiatrists and psychologists who met for 3 years with the initial purpose of providing peer supervision in group therapy. The group became a basic assumption dependency group in which all members had both realistic and magical expectations for help with their personal lives, and a resulting attempted transformation into a leaderless therapy group was a failure. The authors indicate that the experiences of this group illustrate some of the functions of group-leader interaction in allowing group and individual growth.

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