The F factor: Modifications in the course of group psycho-therapy training

The author discusses the importance in group therapy training of the faith concept (F), brought into psychoanalysis by Bion who considered it as an essential component of any scientific approach. The act of faith, is the capacity of having faith in certain hypotheses and intuitions that surface during work and which correspond to facts, the existence of which are ignored by the more ordinary theories. He contends that the global result of the training will depend on the capacity of teachers, students and the school in general to cope with this task of managing the delegated F factor and then to promote the personal new appropriation in given time.