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Dependency states do not constitute a nosological entity, but are nonspecific and cannot be fitted into any psychiatric diagnosis. Nonetheless, they should be
studied as manifestation of relations to an archaic object. These states may be caused to appear by the stress of systematic analysis of transference. This dependency may be compared to a perversion that lies halfway between neurosis and psychosis.