Patrick de Maré — Median Group®

Patrick Baltzar de Maré (27.01.1916 – 17.02.2008) was a British psychotherapist with a special interest in group psychotherapy. He has published several works on psychotherapy and on a theory of mind.

De Maré's Median Group is a development of Foulkes' small group and begins where Foulkes left off. Attention increasingly shifts from the intrapsychic to the social. It is a transitional space to exit kinship (the narcissistic family) and enter friendship (citizenship-society). The objective is not so much to socialize the human individual as to humanize the socio-cultural context. The essence of the Median Group is free-floating dialogue.
The quantum physicist David Bohm underwent psychotherapy with Maré and was strongly influenced by his work, in turn organizing Dialogue Groups.

Patrick de Maré was an accomplished accordion, banjo and ukulele player. He played the accordion in bars and cafes of Hampstead.