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The effects of the psychoanalytic theorisation of the group are not limited to the settings that gave rise to it. Group experience can sustain clinical listening to subjects who are at grips with psychotic difficulties, even in so-called “individual” settings within institutions. Developments of the notion of diffraction of the transference in analytic groups help us to think about the movements of the return of what has been split-off, as well as the articulation between so-called individual psychotherapies and institutional settings. One of the reference points of the therapeutic process can be constituted by the elaboration of an internal groupality that is integrated against the background of internal chaos. A clinical example will help to illustrate this dynamic by highlighting the role of object-relations in clinical work with psychoses.