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With two case reports the author illustrates her thesis that psychotherapy with mothers influences the situation of their 'symptom-children'. The first-born child of a hysterical-neurotic mother seems predestined to be used as
the object of the mother's projections. The underlying conflicts are externalized and thus unconscious; often they include incestuous fantasies and insufficiently developed (or pseudomasculine) sexual identity. The child is involved in the mother's neurosis and has to assume symptomatic functions.