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The practice of having simultaneously in individual analysis with the same analyst people in ongoing relationships with each other has traditionally been taboo. We suggest ways in which violating that taboo by working individually with people in a relationship may serve to prevent some of the potentially destructive consequences of the traditional practice of referring spouses, relatives and close friends of current patients.