It is generally supposed that such presentation, in the psychiatric training of residents and others, frightens the patient and harms the therapeutic relationship. The author studied this question, comparing presentation of the patient to a group (residents, staff members) with presentation of the patient to a supervising psychiatrist only. From experience with forty-eight patients, he concludes that this procedure is safe and, in fact, at times decidedly advantageous. Curiously enough, the many patients presented to the group seem to derive direct help from the experience. This may occur because of the intensity of the emotional experience in such a presentation to a group, and the capacity of the therapist to utilize this intense emotional experience in subsequent work with the patients.