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The hostile countertransference manifested by some school personnel toward children with school phobia is provoked by the thinly covered sexual and aggressive drives of the child. Such personnel are led by their own sadomasochistic impulses to re-enact in the school setting the sadomasochistic aspects of the relation between mother and child. The hostile response to the school phobic that forces him into the feared situation is masked as 'realism' and prevents proper treatment of the pathological unconscious processes in the child.