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The neurotic individual and the group

From Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds by Harold Behr & Liesel Hearst, pg 10:

Neurosis, according to Foulkes, is a state of mind which develops when, as individuals, we get to be at odds with our group and become, to a varying degree, isolated from ourselves and others.

The neurotic position is by definition highly individualistic, and therefore works against the group. It acts as an irritant to both the individual and the group and leads, if left unchecked, to the isolation of the individual from the group. The individual’s so-called neurotic symptoms are in fact an aspect of him- or herself which cannot be communicated in words, and which can therefore only again expression in symptomatic form. For symptoms to become suitable for sharing, they must be translated into communicable language.

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