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The group setting gains much of its therapeutic leverage from the fact that it requires its members to experience and process feelings and impulses arising from a multiplicity of stimuli, but as Rosenthal and Bernstein (1999) point out in their papers, inevitably heightens the vulnerability of patients to narcissistic injury. Goldberg (1999) favors placing her patients into group after two years of individual analysis so that they will experience primitive levels of regression. This theoretical divide is explored. Rosenthal takes up the analyst's narcissistic vulnerability in the group setting. The author discusses how the analyst's heightened emotional vulnerability can either contribute to or deter therapeutic progress. The author ends with a discussion of Marshall's (1999) approach to group supervision and a supervisory interaction he once had with Spotnitz.