In recent years there has been an increasing awareness among analysts that behind the neurotic aspects of the female patient's personality there lies hidden a psychotic problem which needs to be dealt with to ensure real stability. The author states that his patient had made various references to guilt and anxiety about incest. A dream in which patient body was split in half was understood in terms of splitting off patient's sexual feelings from the oral ones. The patient herself referred to being like that of a child playing with a ball that could not stop because any suggestion of the idea of it not going on for ever was like a small dose of death. At the last IPA Congress, Limentani stressed the importance of learning to understand the moods and feelings of the silent patient and his difficulty in conveying his experience to students and colleagues.