In Group Psychotherapy With Veterans, six therapeutic aims are listed: (1) to provide emotional support through group relationships, (2) to encourage discharge of pent-up aggression, (3) to reduce guilt and anxiety, (4) to encourage the correction of irrational interpersonal reactions, (5) to increase self-esteem and recognition of constructive capacities, (6) to foster the development of insight. 'Group therapy is a more real experience than individual therapy'; its power is limited for chronic, rigid personality distortions with deep unconscious roots but it 'offers a means for therapeutic resolution of some types of social maladaptation and emotional disturbances of relatively recent origin'. Its