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This paper constitutes an appropriate sequel and complement to the foregoing. The report of the treatment of a seriously disturbed eighteen-year-old student illustrates certain kinds of active participation by the analyst in addition to interpretation and working through of transference and resistance. The analyst's spontaneous attitude and value-revealing reactions to the patient's verbal and nonverbal communications facilitated the patient's associations. Active reality testing and support of the patient's healthy strivings were the core elements in the modification of psychoanalytic technique. The adolescent requires a dependable, challenging object relationship with the analyst because of his impaired object relations and identity problems.