One of the main topics of the study described in this article is the role played by imaginary identification in the psychoanalytical approach to psychotics treated together in small groups. The study of psychoanalytic theories on group functioning and the therapeutic handling of mono-symptomatic groups provided the starting point for our inquires. The specificity of identification in psychotics and the possibility of improving the establishment of social ties among the members of such groups through identification processes was the focus of the main part of our work.
Psychosis; identification; small groups; social ties