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Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Woman With Anxiety Attacks and Conversion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Abstract

This case study describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a young woman presenting with symptoms of overwhelming anxiety, panic, and conversion. The emphasis is on technique with detailed reporting on the psychoanalytic process. Attention is paid to transference-countertransference paradigms at critical junctures in the treatment. The role of clinical supervision in the unfolding of the process is described also. This patient developed an identifiable transference neurosis during the course of the treatment, which became the focus of the analysis. Follow-up observations on this patient are also presented, as she returned for a brief course of treatment 4 years following initial termination.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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