ABSTRACT
This particular group is open ended, having continued for over fifteen years with patients entering and leaving based on their own growth and particular needs. It is a geriatric group, with an age range of seventy to ninety-six years. All participants have had serious psychiatric illness such as major depression and bipolar disorder. There are no schizophrenics in the group. Most have been hospitalized for depression and about 25 percent have been treated with ECT. All are on psychotherapeutic medications.
