Observations are reported on six analytic patients—three male and three female—during a month's vacation spent in a farmhouse together with their analyst and his family. All the patients were borderline cases with depressive trends. They were given electroshock therapy in addition to analysis.

In the new transference situation all the patients felt sheltered and less inhibited, and the situation became reminiscent of their childhood, the analyst representing the 'good' parent. This, Mosse thinks, activated the analytic process and brought about an improvement in the reality testing function.