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The author describes two patients in whom headaches occurred when specific conflicts over the transference were present. The headaches were a conversion symptom and a defense against hostile impulses resulting from certain frustrations. The desires to control the object in an anal-sadistic way represented the masculine desires. In one case the masturbatory activity without guilt reactivated parental prohibitions.