A twenty-eight-year-old woman, moribund from rectal hemorrhage, was seen as an emergency after the medical service of the hospital had given her up as hopeless. Dramatic results were achieved in a total of fifty hours of treatment. She treated her illness as though it were a person; she was carrying on a 'death struggle with an introjected destroying object and had reprojected the image of this personification'. Bressler clarifies the dynamics of the acute illness, though he attempts no full analysis.