poses of three major elements: the past brought into the present, the context of the analysis bringing transferences into the open, and the person that evoked the responses in the first place (Freud, 1921, 1955, pp. 116 19).
However, two major trends in this basic concept have emerged which center on our discussion of group therapy. The first notes that transference in groups is both indiscriminant and nonselective; the second that it ignores or distorts reality (Greenson, 1967). This model helps to explain the change in dynamics which often appears in most types of group therapy, and the feeling that their is an altered state of reality present while participating in the group setting itself (Klein, 1977; Yalom, 1970).
In assessing the different types of group therapy, one is first struck with the humanistic nature of T groups, conducted in the traditional of the National Training Laboratory or self analytic classroom group. The broad goals of the T group session are democratic, humanis
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