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The author reflects upon the applied group analysis from psychologists Martin Weegmann and Anabel Head with family and friends as carers for patients with personality disorders and substance misuse. Topics discussed include carers; groups comprising of families and friends, the Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Mentalization Based Therapy for families to overcome the emotional stress, and including health care workers in the circle of care.

Britain is a multicultural society with psychiatrists and their patients coming from many different countries. It is therefore important that psychiatric trainees learn to understand their own cultural determinants and how these influence understanding patients who come from different cultures, other than their own, while operating within a third and different culture.When conducted with the group analytic stance, the Case Based Discussion (CBD) group, which is a mandatory component of psychiatric training, can be a rich medium for enabling trainees to see both themselves and their patients in their cultural context. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]