Incorrigible juvenile delinquents with character disorders are markedly resistive to therapy aimed at accomplishing character changes. However, when such a group was involved in hourly sessions five times a week, the members developed highly productive and significant understanding of themselves. They were motivated to join the group because it was an alternative to immediate or inevitable penalization. The therapeutic goals of the group were: 1, dilution of the intense hostility directed against the therapist as representing authority; 2, exposure of distrust and fearfulness as shown in mutual transference response; and 3, peer support, especially against passive dependent longings. The frequency of the sessions was dictated by the members' low tolerance for frustration and anxiety, their predilection for discharging tension through impulsive behavior, and their need for uninterrupted support in facing their sense of personal