A. P. Tom Ormay has been a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for the last forty years and a group analyst for the last thirty years, in private practice. He has taught in the Royal College of Art and in Goldsmith College in London, and also in various professional institutions. Presently living in Hungary, he is teaching in the University of Physical Education Budapest, in the John Wesley Theological College Budapest, and in the University of Szeged. He is a member of the Institute of Group Analysis, London and the Group Analytic Society, London. He is the editor of the journal Group Analysis.
Group analysis developed out of psychoanalysis, but kept the fundamental principles of the latter. The classical structural theory of the personality comprises the id that is an ego-centred instinct,... (more)