ABSTRACT
The widening scope of psychoanalysis has resulted in increased effectiveness in the treatment of perversions. “We have learned that some preoedipal problems do yield to analysis and that the manifestations of oedipal and preoedipal pathology can be intertwined” (Solomon, 1982). We have also learned that paying attention to self-pathology can add another facet to the understanding of those cases that have been stubbornly resistant to psychoanalytic therapy (Kohut, 1979; Kohut & Wolf, 1978).
