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INTRODUCTION
Chapter Ten
Summary and Conclusions
In this chapter, the first aim is to draw together and to summarise the findings of the
thesis. These have been found in the analyses of Part Two (in other words, the
Diachronic Analysis in Chapter Four, as well as the Synchronic Analyses in Chapters
Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine). Some of these various findings have been discoveries
about teaching and learning, and others discoveries about investigating. These findings
will be evaluated in relation to the two questions of the thesis, how the learning group
contributes to the development of psychotherapists, and whether a method of
investigation can be applied to that process of teaching and learning, to which I will
argue the answer is yes.
Following that, the second aim is to begin to utilise the findings from the thesis. From
these, I will articulate a model for the teaching of disciplines such as the clinical
practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, to set alongside the methodology for
investigating phenomena such as groups learning.
This chapter ends with some conclusions. Of the two final chapters that follow, Chapter
Eleven is a reflection on the limitations of the study, and Chapter Twelve a
consideration of the directions that future practice, clinical teaching and research might
take.