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Treatment of an acting out adolescent girl in a hospital setting is described. The type of treatment makes use of metaphoric language that allows the patient the proper distance from herself so that she may talk about her own real problems. Emphasis is placed on the fact that in all therapy we have to direct ourselves to the state of the ego organization we find, and that this state shifts with regression and with strengthening of the ego.