The author describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a forty-four-year-old patient who had been disabled for fifteen years, was in the midst of a legal fight with the government over disability insurance, and who nevertheless rapidly recovered. The 'war neurosis' had no connection with military activity except that the onset occurred during military service. The traumatic event worked as a repetition of repressed infantile experiences. The excellent thrapeutic result, despite the great handicaps, was possible since the patient never willingly resigned himself to becoming dependent on the government. After only two hundred hours and with analytic insight into the main conflicts, the patient has kept healthy for six years since the termination of the analysis.