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Laufer discusses seriously ill adolescents he has known who have attempted suicide. His thesis is that the adolescent's relation to his or her own body, its changes at
puberty, underlie the development of perversion or psychosis. Treatment is long, difficult, and of doubtful outcome; however, the two patients here described were helped by it. Transference analysis seems to have been the most useful means.