The overall objective of the Dutch GP training programme is to help the trainees develop into autonomous professional helpers. One of the most widely used means to this end is‘experience-sharing’: exchanging and discussing experiences in groups of 12 junior GPs, led by a senior GP and a psychologist.‘Experience-sharing’can be optimized if group-psychotherapeutic techniques are used. Of the techniques that can be helpful, one deserves particular attention: the use that can be made of the so-called‘parallel process’. This process entails the enactment—in the group—of unconscious diffficulties besetting the doctor-patient relationship. This paper describes the parallel process and indicates how it can be used to help the GP group group members form more autonomous role conceptions.