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Clinical observations in adolescent depression indicate that very early disturbances in the identification process and ego ideal development cause pathology in the superego in these cases. The therapeutic aim is to encourage an awareness of the good qualities in the superego, enable the patient to be receptive to a new type of ego ideal and superego, and change the infantile conception of the frustrating objects.