Individual psychotherapy with schizophrenics is hampered by the transference complications which lead to denial, withdrawal, indifference, passivity, acting out, etc. Group therapy for schizophrenics, especially in an environment such as a day treatment center, is valuable because involvement with other patients who are viewed as peers and equals overcomes the frightening infantile transference that occurs in individual psychotherapy. Group techniques can be used in hospitals and with outpatients. The focus shifts from therapist-patient interactions to patient-group interactions. This diminishes countertransference and transference complications, enables the therapist to overcome schizophrenic resistances, improves the patient's reality testing and object ties, and strengthens the healthy part of the schizophrenic ego so that it can maintain its defenses against the psychotic part.