An American woman underwent a Freudian analysis without success.

She had used Foul Language to her analyst but he had failed to react and he disregarded her behaviour.

When she repeated some examples to me I told her in no uncertain terms that if she were ever to speak to
me again like that, I would reply to her in the same fashion.

The patient pointed out that I had become emotional and that was not permissible for an analyst.

My answer was, “But it is human and I have the right to be human too.”

This allowed her to emerge from her schizophrenia.

She had become disoriented through the unnatural behaviour of her first analyst; she was brought back
to reality by the honesty of my reaction and was cured. ~Carl Jung, Jung-Ostrowski, Page 15.

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