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From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice. By John R. Schlapobersky. London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

The climate of European group analysis has been evolving for the past 75 years. John Schlapobersky’s book takes us on a journey from its beginnings through the many countries where it has taken root. I, Dale C. Godby, a certified group psychotherapist and full member of the Group Analytic Society International, have been traveling to this “undiscover’d country” of group analysis since the 1990s. To add a multigenerational perspective on Schlapobersky’s work, I invited Jason S. Berman, a younger colleague, also a certified group psychotherapist and an advanced candidate in psychoanalysis, to review this book with me. Jason and I both grew up in a North American tradition of group psychotherapy, studying Yalom (Yalom & Leszcz, 2005), Rutan (Rutan, Stone, & Shay, 2014), Ormont (1992), and Corey (2016). What does group analysis offer that is not found in the North American tradition? Let’s find out. The depth and breadth of group analysis covered in this book demonstrates that one can spend a whole career in group work without exhausting the excitement, intellectual stimulation, and therapeutic potential that groups offer. In fact, Schlapobersky has spent a lifetime studying, conducting, teaching, and writing about groups. Context is crucially important in group analysis. Schlapobersky’s personal context is having Lithuanian grandparents and arriving in the UK as a political refugee from South Africa via Israel. Foulkes, the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 67: 611–617, 2017 Copyright © The American Group Psychotherapy Association, Inc. ISSN: 0020-7284 print/1943-2836 online DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2017.1314736