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The author describes the initial phase of treatment with a latency child who comes from a traumatized family. After a life-threatening accident, the child started to show paralyzing obsessive-compulsive behaviors as a main defense mechanism against both his own anxiety and the anxiety which this family has been “hoarding” for a long time.