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Résumé :
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This article introduces Kurt Lewin's field theory of social groups to show the impact at the time (1930s and 1940s) on the conceptualisation of the clinical setting in psychoanalysis. John Rickman is now little known, but these ideas were brought by him to psychoanalysis. Through his mentoring of his one-time analysand, Wilfred Bion, they influenced psychiatry during World War II, and helped to set the direction of a number of subsequent developments, including the evolution of a form of group therapy, the Tavistock Institute approach to organisations, and not least the new thinking about countertransference in clinical practice after 1950.
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