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Comment on Dr. Scott's Paper. Daniel W. Badal. Pp. 377-379.
Both depression, that mania defends against, and hopeful mourning, that depression pathologically expresses, must be exposed in therapy. Their surface interplay then hopefully diminishes aggression and fear increases love. Scott presents three cases of successfully treated mania.
Badal agrees that the state between mania and depression is where most therapeutic work can be done though even here patients show strong tendencies to denial and warding off. Drugs and shock treatment may make them more accessible. Scott's three cases demonstrate that the development of transference and its analysis in illness of this kind is sometimes possible.