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Since Freud’s paper on Mourning and Melancholia various authors have approached the issue of patients who are relentlessly self-critical. While descriptively similar to previous explanations, the author describes patients who desperately cling to self-criticism out of a fear of terrifying aloneness. They are driven by unconscious determinants that seem similar to those noted by others but is a variation with important clinical implications.