Although shame has been extensively explored in recent psychotherapeutic literature the role of shame in group analysis as described by Foulkes remains unclear. Based on a narrative literature review conducted for a master’s degree (Rathbone, 2010), the author draws together theory and evidence and explores its relevance to the practice of group analytic psychotherapy. She argues that the social nature of the original trauma and the particular configuration of the analytic group gives it the potential to be an ideal arena for a reparative ‘good enough’ experience of attunement and thus for resolution of shame-based psychopathology. She concludes that this may be considered an additional therapeutic factor alongside socialization, mirroring, activation of the collective unconscious and exchange, which Foulkes identified.