For four years twenty male patients from custodial wards, aged sixteen to sixty-four but most under thirty, who showed regression and who had been

intractable to any shock therapy, were treated in groups. Patients were added singly at two-month intervals after it had been ascertained that symptomatic behavior would not hamper the relationship with the therapist or group activity. By utilizing and expanding the healthy portions of their personalities, the behavior of the members began to approximate more closely that of their normal peers. Several of the members were able to leave the hospital and secure employment.