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The emerging hopes of the patient in treatment, essential if increasing integration is to occur, are first repudiated because they are closely associated with hopes of the past that ended disastrously. The analyst can help by making the patient aware of the unreality of the repudiations in the present and of their basis in the past. Ultimately the disturbing affects should be discharged, and then hopes similar to those repudiated should begin to emerge.