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This chapter provides an overview of group analysis and how it lends itself to research on interpersonal relating espoused by Relating Theory (Birtchnell 1993/1996). Members of an analytic group within an NHS Mental Health Psychological Service rated their own relating using the Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire (PROQ3; Birtchnell et al., Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 20(1), 36–48, 2013) and the relating of others using the Observed Person’s Relating to Others Questionnaire (OPROQ; Birtchnell et al., The application to psychotherapy of measures based upon the interpersonal octagon: Measurement in group psychotherapy, 2006). These measures were scored and charts were provided to group members to view their own rating together with the other group members’ ratings of them. In some instances there were marked differences between a member’s self-rating and the rating made of him/her by the other group members, which generated in-depth discussion within the group of the member’s relational pattern, what the group members perceived and how this reflected difficulties in the patient’s outside relationships.
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Brown, M. (2016). Relatedness Reflected Through the Group Analytic Mirror. In: Birtchnell, J., Newberry, M., Kalaitzaki, A. (eds) Relating Theory – Clinical and Forensic Applications. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50459-3_16
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