The need to provide more effective intervention for chronic psychotics led the authors to institute nonverbal exercises by which their patients could express their feelings and enhance their interpersonal competence, their self-acceptance, and their self-esteem. Characteristically, these chronic schizophrenics feared their own emotions and inhibited their expression since interpersonal encounters aroused in them an intolerable degree of anxiety. These patients interacted in a manner that expressed emotion by the exercise of as many of their senses as possible: by special sitting arrangements, by pushing, by backing out of a circle, by hitting inanimate objects, by hugging, etc. After two and a half years, the patients became willing to discuss their emotions and problems, to care for each other, and to participate in the group. Phone calls to the therapists and demands for medication became less frequent.