The group is a laboratory of contact with the outside world, with people, with yourself! In the setting of an individual consultation - provided that you have trust in the psychologist advising you - you can raise the most delicate issues of your mental life, discuss the most ridiculous fantasies and make adjustments to your most absurd plans. Such a process gives you the opportunity, if desired, to adjust your understanding of reality and, instead of, say, building castles in the air on unknown pink shores, do something more real and arouse your keen interest. However, with a psychotherapist who is largely determined to almost completely accept you in the form in which you arrived at your meetings with him, you still miss out on the amazing opportunities that so-called group therapy provides. A few words about her. It, from my point of view, occupies a certain intermediate position between individual therapy and real life, in which we have to face problems that we either cannot solve at all, or solve ineptly, not very successfully, in general - not in the way we I would like that. This is what she looks like. These are group meetings with one or two leading people, initially unfamiliar with each other. They take place once a week, for three hours. The number of participants is about ten people. What might happen at these meetings? While maintaining some intrigue and not being able to convey all the diversity of what can happen there, I will say briefly. There the actual MEETINGS take place. You - with other people. Theirs is with you. There are meetings between you and yourself, with some unexpected reactions, relationships, impulses and desires, about which you know nothing or very little, despite the fact that they live in you and one way or another guide your interaction with other people. The group has its own lifespan. It goes through its characteristic phases of development. Goes through various crises - growth, mutual love, mutual claims. In it you can learn to enter into conflicts and get out of them. It is better to feel and understand that other people, who are somewhat similar to me, are at the same time very different from me. However, there are ways and possibilities, while remaining different, to coexist in the same space, not only being irritated by the unpleasant characteristics of our neighbor, but also benefiting from our differences. Thus, the group in a sense is, albeit modest and approximate, but still a model of the society in which we have to live, and the processes occurring in it are in many ways reminiscent of those that occur in families, and in friendships, and in work teams , and in intimate relationships. The advantageous difference between events in a group and events in our real life is that in it it is possible, in a safe environment created by the joint efforts of participants and presenters, to participate in completely real social interaction with completely real living people, taking away from it and appropriating exactly that experience that you are missing in real life.