- Sandy was a thirty-seven-year-old housewife who had once, many years before, suffered a major and recalcitrant depression requiring hospitalization and electroconvulsive therapy. She sought group therapy at the insistence of her individual therapist, who thought that an understanding of has interpersonal relationships would thought help her to improve her relationship with her husband. In the early meetings of the group, she was an active member who tended to reveal far more intimate details of her history than did the other members. Occasionally, sandy expressed anger toward another member and then engaged in excessively profuse apologies coupled with self-deprecatory remarks. By the sixth meeting, her behavior became still more inappropriate. She discoursed at great length on her son’s urinary problems, for example, describing in intricate detail the surgery that had been performed to relieve his urethral stricture. At the following meeting, she noted that the family cat had also developed a blockage of the urinary tract; she then urged the other members to describe their pets.