ABSTRACT
This chapter was originally presented as a paper to a conference in Paris organised by the Continuing Education Seminars of Los Angeles. The neurotic adult patient discussed in it was one of those seemingly perennial patients whose functioning is based on the avoidance of endings. Insights derived from my work with autistic children have released this patient from the fetters of her autistic practices, so that she has become able to generate fundamental understandings which have made termination a reasonably safe possibility for her.
