Kalischer reports two cases, showing that even when a classical analysis is not possible, the therapist's analytically orientated interventions can achieve surprising results. In the two cases of child neurosis an obtrusive façade of aggressiveness impeded insight into its main function of averting anxiety. Role-playing, fictitious telephone calls and drawings with accompanying texts were used to allow the expression of the repressed conflicts, thus serving as the medium of the curative interpretations and resolving the pathogenic infantile situation.