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After briefly reviewing the literature on the concept of psychoanalytic impasse, the authors point out a distinctive kind of impasse they came across when the emotional contact with the analyst and the insights acquired in the sessions don't bring about a proportionate change and development in the patient's everyday life. Bion's ideas on the development of thinking and the use of thoughts expressed in the Grid helped to understand the dynamic of such an impasse and to find a technique suitable for overcoming it. Two clinical cases are cited to illustrate these concepts. The Grid is thoroughly described as a tool in clinical practice.
KEY WORDS: Action, analyst's reverie, impasse, the Grid, transformation, transformation.