Isaura Manso Neto, MD, is a training, supervisor member and current president of the Portuguese Society of Groupanalysis and Analytic Group Psychotherapy, a GASi full-member, a member of the Portuguese Society of Psychoanalysis and of the Portuguese Association of Relational Psychoanalysis. She is currently working in private practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and group analyst, conducting four groupanalytic groups.

Margarida França is a specialist in clinical psychology, community psychology and psychotherapy. She is a member of the Portuguese Society of Groupanalysis and Analytic Group Psychotherapy, and an associate member of GASi. She is currently working as a psychotherapist in private practice in Lisbon, with adults, young children and adolescents.

Introduction

Isaura Manso Neto and Margarida França

Chapter 1

History of group psychotherapy, group analysis and the contributions of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

António Guilherme Ferreira

Chapter 2

Group analysis: A cluster identity. Redefining/rethinking Group Analysis

Isaura Manso Neto and Maria João Centeno

Chapter 3

The Portuguese school of groupanalysis: The integration of psychoanalytic concepts in groupanalysis

Sara Ferro and Margarida França

Chapter 4

The concepts of group-analytic matrix and personal group matrix

Paulo Motta Marques and João Carlos Melo

Chapter 5

The pattern

Isaura Manso Neto and César Vieira Dinis

Chapter 6

Foulkes, Cortesão, and beyond. Other specific concepts of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

João Carlos Melo and Paulo Motta Marques

Chapter 7

Transference and countertransference in the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

César Vieira Dinis and José de Abreu-Afonso

Chapter 8

Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy as favoured settings to deal with conflicts and difficult feelings

Isaura Manso Neto and Ana Bivar

Chapter 9

The groupanalyst as a patient and related training issues

Margarida França and Isaura Manso Neto