What is normal in group analysis?

In just a few decades, the normative world we inhabit is comprehensively different to the one in which S.H. Foulkes lived. As the pace, scope and content of change have transformed society, we have 'greater indeterminacy to decide our movements and identity' (p. 67). Personal identity has been released from many of its traditional moorings. The pervasive influence of contemporary 'psy-sciences' and exponential growth of therapeutic experts is one aspect of these changes. Seemingly, we live with more flux and flow than ever before. Have our theories kept up with theses fundamental changes? This paper offers a critical, post-Foulksean, post-psychoanalytic perspective on the normative world and our practices within it. It begins with history and the importance of locating who we are and what we do within the mutations of long-term change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]