<P>Groups are arguably an essential and unavoidable part of our human lives¿whether we are part of families, work teams, therapy groups, organizational systems, social clubs, or larger communities. In <I>Groups in Transactional Analysis, Object Relations, and Family Systems: Studying Ourselves in Collective Life, </I>N. Michel Landaiche, III addresses the intense feelings and unexamined beliefs that exist in relation to groups, and explores how to enhance learning, development and growth within them.</P><P></P><P>Landaiche¿s multidisciplinary perspective is grounded in the traditions of Eric Berne¿s transactional analysis, Wilfred Bion¿s group-as-a-whole model, and Murray Bowen¿s family systems theory. The book presents a practice of studying ourselves in collective life that utilizes a naturalistic method of observation, analysis of experiential data, and hypothesis formation, all of which are subject to further revision as we gather more data from our lived experiences. Drawing from