%0 Journal Article
%T Back to the rough ground: From predictability to radical uncertainty
%A Farhad Dalal
%J Group Analysis
%@ 1461-717X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0533316418779855
%X In this article I will begin by thinking about how schools of psychotherapy come to be created, and argue that this is a political process rather than a ¡®scientific¡¯, technical or rational one. I describe ways in which practice can at times be unhelpfully rigidified into techniques which are used to build borders between schools. I follow this by a description of how Eliasian gossip is used to reinforce methodological silos. Finally I consider group analysis¡¯ relationship to psychoanalysis, science and the medical model in order to try to shed light on the question ¡®one group analysis or many?¡¯
%K politics of psychotherapy
%K science
%K psychoanalysis
%K group Analysis
%K research
%K technique
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0533316418779855