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The gap in relation to the learning group is …
… that there is a lack of a clearly articulated awareness of how
the learning group operates, how it might contribute to the
primary task of the teaching and learning, how it might be
stopped from hindering the primary task of the teaching and
learning, and how the answering of these questions might have
application outside of the fairly specialised field in question.
Table 1.1 – The gap in knowledge in relation to the learning group
The gap in ways of investigating is …
… that there isn’t a method that is satisfactory for the
investigation of some aspects of training in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy, particularly the role of the learning group. The
question then becomes, can a method be constructed that
values and privileges the philosophical world-view underlying
psychoanalytic and group-analytic psychotherapy, and which
can fruitfully yet critically investigate aspects of those
practices?
Table 1.2 – The gap in ways of investigating