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Some Considerations of Negative Therapeutic Reactions

This paper deals with the peculiar characteristics of the negative therapeutic reaction shown by a patient. As long as envy was interpreted as the cause of this reaction, analysis did not progress. When the negative therapeutic reaction was considered as a communication of the patient’s anxiety and not as resistance, this focalization helped to crystallize the therapeutic evolution.

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