The acceptance of psychosomatic concepts paradoxically has enabled patients to deny a serious or chronic physical illness by attributing it to emotional factors. The patient thus can alleviate his feelings of helplessness by a regression to primitive beliefs in the personal omnipotence of his thoughts. As his thoughts become less troubled, his body will be given health in a 'return to grace' through psychotherapy. With three excellent illustrations, the author painfully speculates about his countertransference fantasies and warns us that our biases may be enticed by the plethora of psychological data provided by such a patient.