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Patients who come to analysis to solve marital difficulties present special technical problems. Any intimate relationship is misconstrued according to the patient's emotional needs, and this happens with the transference relationship. Analysis, if not well conducted, may actually damage these patients. They tend to use the analysis for the acting out of self-destructive impulses. The transference appears to be of psychotic or perverse nature, but these qualities may be hidden by apparently normal or neurotic features in the personality of the patient. The