The implications of leader transparency for the dynamics of short-term process groups

Reality in analytic group psychotherapy: Beyond transference and countertransference

“…The other is that therapists tended to relate better to those patients who manifested increasing evidence of leadership and dominance in the group. His first interpretation seems to coincide with that of Wright, Buirski and Smith (1978) in that the leader exerts an influence upon the attitude toward dominance of the group members.…”

“…Wright, Buirski and Smith (1978) found that members in short-term process groups, who were subjects of an investigation on leaders' transparency, were able to assess correctly whom their leaders paid more attention to and liked best. This, the authors say, in spite of the fact that the leaders involved conducted their groups in a psychoanalytic fashion and consciously tried to be opaque.…”

“…Wright, Buirski and Smith (1978), in a study conducted with laboratory groups led in a psychoanalytic fashion, found that group members whom the leaders judged to be the most dominant, were also the ones the leaders liked the best. These members were also rated highest in dominance by the group members and were the best liked by them.…”