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I have discussed the psychoanalytic treatment of some psychotic patients in terms of the impact their delusional material had upon me.
I focused on the oppressive nature of the patient's delusion and found that the analyst's reaction with a delusion of his own, so to speak, creates special problems which interfere with the progress of analysis. I described an especially poignant episode where the patient helped me to continue functioning as an analyst.