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The application of psycho-analytic principles in short out-patient consultations can often effect considerable improvement. The case is quoted of a patient suffering from headaches, exhaustion, and periods of confusion and severe anxiety, whose blood-pressure was found to be 175/110. Weekly interviews resulted in marked symptomatic improvement
and in a fall in blood-pressure to an average of 113/71. The treatment lasted five months.