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A leaderless group was made up of eight psychoanalysts who suffered from social isolation due to professional and personal character defenses. The resistances they displayed were alternate playing of therapist and patient, referring to absent persons, projecting unacceptable traits onto others, and denying emotional needs. Leadership of the group was alternated among members. A leader was often the member least involved in a focal conflict, to which he could therefore devise solutions. At first, members tended to find emotional satisfaction in friends and family, rather than in therapy. One acknowledged a growing realization of personal death, from which evolved a wish to live more fully rather than become isolated with purely professional interests. The prospect of ending the group brought about discussion of loss, death, and depression. There was much ambivalence about terminating. Peer relationships had replaced the parent analyst role, in which another becomes the child patient. And affection and competition had been harnessed to coöperative effort. One member commented: 'Three years of group work could be the equivalent of a good single analysis'.