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Schismatic Groups

James P. Gustafson

Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.

The common problem in the life of working small groups of division into opposed camps that are unable to cooperate [schism] is considered here in theory and in practice. The first aim of the paper is to integrate previous theoretical contributions into a single coherent model, which will provide intelligibility and lines of intervention to the group leader or consultant. The second aim is to show this conceptualization in practice, in work with a seminar in a Group Relations Conference and in work with a small group of medical students studying "The Doctor-Patient Relationship. " What is em-phasized is the ease with which subgrouping is made more defensive and in-transigent by the leader's articulation of it and the necessity for getting back to the task in common and the resistance to this task.

Human Relations, Vol. 31, No. 2, 139-154 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/001872677803100203
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