Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy of women with cancer of the breast was carried out by seven analysts, including the author, in research into the psychosomatic correlations in this disease. Even though all the researchers knew that there is no known connection between the emotions and the inception or progression of cancer, none truly accepted the fact. Despite their attempts at balance and analytic perception, their therapeutic goal was clearly prevention of recurrence of cancer or abolition of the active cancer through successful analysis of the total personality. This need to believe in psychosomatic connections in cancer and in its vulnerability to psychoanalytic treatment was an early reaction in all therapists designed to avoid facing the