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Are these experiences to be seen as fantasy and treated as manifest content, with dynamically active unconscious conflict and meaning, requiring interpretation, or as a developmental arrest in which structural disturbances are ameliorated through clarifying and empathic interventions?<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The first case is of a patient with a neurotic depression and hysterical and obsessional character traits, treated in a classic psychoanalysis. Even though dyadic oral and anal fantasies were strongly in evidence, the ego was well integrated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The second case is of a severe borderline patient who showed. depressive panic and agoraphobia. Her major ego disturbances, poorly integrated and differentiated self- and object representations, and primitive defenses prevented effective psychoanalytically oriented treatment. Interventions were used to consolidate self-representations, internalize tension-regulating structures, promote adaptive ego functions and reality testing. These clarifications were necessary to move the patient to where she could tolerate facing unconscious dynamic conflicts. Only at that point could repression be lifted, memory emerge, and interpretation be utilized.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/000306518803600102","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,6,16]],"date-time":"2009-06-16T19:27:52Z","timestamp":1245180472000},"page":"31-59","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Fantasy or Structural Defect? 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