DescriptionThis case study of a psychodynamic group of inner-city adolescent girls from Brooklyn, New York, examines how the developmental stage of rapprochement as a phenomenon occurred in the group process and how examining the cultural countertransference became crucial in resolving the resistances to cooperating in the group and reaching a more mature manner of relating by relinquishing behaviors and attitudes impeding their success in education and employment. The phenomenon of rapprochement in group work can be used to understand the process of how the individual practices engagement and disengagement from the group, the group leader, and possibly various cultural identities.