Groups and their members can be seen as experiencing a ‘life cycle’, characterised by a sequence of developmental stages. Life cycle models typically present these stages as phenomena of group experience. This paper experiments with the application of Personal Construct Psychology to phases of group development, describing these as processes of construing and elaboration made more vivid by the ...

to treat satisfactorily. Soloman’ estimated that Friedlander’s pneumonia constitutes 1 to 3 per cent of all adult cases of pneumonia. The onset of the disease can closely mimic either that of pneumococcic pneumonia or virus pneumonia and failure of the disease to respond to ordinary antibiotics is frequently the first factor to raise a question as to the correct diagnosis. The following case pr...