Educational group therapy utilizes group discussion as a therapeutic instrument. This form of treatment showed excellent results with six pre-kindergarten thumb-suckers; the author repeated the experiment with a similar group of progressive school children whose symptoms were of an anal character. Use of the toilet had become a social event and scatological language flourished persistently. With co-operation between the teacher and the author, the experiment was successful. More than the removal of the symptom was accomplished—the children were freed of guilt and anxiety through abreaction of the symptoms in play. Much of the article consists of the direct discourse between the teacher and the pupils.