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The paper is based on precise documentation of the analytical short therapy of a patient with a typical traumatic neurosis, extracts from the therapy being presented. The typical case makes it possible to adduce considerations of a theoretical, clinical and therapeutic nature whereby traumatic neurosis can be distinguished from other disturbances—in particular, psychoneurosis. Such considerations are important because pure
forms of psychoneuroses and traumatic neuroses are much rarer than transitional forms. In so far as it is possible to show that a typical traumatic neurosis calls for a therapeutic procedure which differs in some respects from that applicable in psychoneurosis, this may have consequences for the handling of traumatic inclusions in patients with predominantly psychoneurotic problems, as well as in other disturbances, such as borderline personality disturbances.