The Social Basis of Consciousness

The Social Basis of Consciousness, published in 1927, is Trigant Burrow's early statement of the position that took him away from orthodox psychoanalysis. Burrow, an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is credited alongside Joseph Pratt and Paul Schilder as a founder of group analysis in the United States, argues in it that neurosis is not properly a disorder of an individual to be treated in a private consulting room, but a condition of the group and of the society the individual belongs to, so that the analyst is inside the disorder rather than outside it. The method that follows, which he later developed as group analysis and then as phyloanalysis, puts the investigator and the subjects in the same group under the same observation. Burrow's durable place in the record is as a founder of group analysis, and his own wider system sits at the margin of the discipline and is not in current use.

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