| Abstract: | A discussion of personal disclosures on the part of leaders of educationally oriented self analytic groups is presented in the context of group social structure and group members’relationships with authority. The discussion includes an examination of the significance of asymmetric relationships between leaders and members in the early phases of group development, the implications for the group of disclosures, and differential meanings of personal disclosure for men and women. The notion of sexual and aggressive components of disclosures is also considered along with a brief statement about the nature of group leadership and its relation to individual temperament and adopted life style. |
