This paper is along the lines of previous studies by Adelaide Johnson and her co-workers. She gives numerous examples of the influence in the development of unusual sexual symptoms and perversions of unconscious seduction and encouragement by the parents. Important aspects of her technique of combined therapy of parents and child are the separation of the child from the parents at the beginning of treatment if necessary, the refusal by the analyst to repeat the permissive attitude of the parents, and a long analysis for the significant parent which, by relieving the child of the seductive pressure, tends to shorten the child's treatment.