During my first year of training in analytic group therapy, I felt my work with adolescent groups was never taken seriously except by my supervisors. My classmates seemed to think that this work was not intellectually challenging, that it was not very sophisticated, and that it was not“real analysis.” I felt dismissed and ignored, and that the only way I could be taken seriously was to lead an adult group. I have since learned that my experience was not unusual. Many therapists who work with adolescents report feeling like “second-class citizens”in the psychoanalytic community. Furthermore, therapeutic work with adolescents as a distinct developmental stage has been largely ignored in group theory.