Millet describes 'psychoanalytic psychotherapy' of a forty-year-old woman who suffered from Raynaud's syndrome and recovered. He believes that the symptom of cold hands with blanching cannot be classified as a conversion symptom, but rather occurs primarily as a 'conditioned reflex response to fear of

contact with death. This fear may be generated by exposure to the actual death of a loved person or the anticipation of it, or may be transformed through guilty feelings and be experienced as a fear of dying.'