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Quotation from The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
“they get worse during the treatment instead of getting better. They exhibit the so-called negative therapeutic reaction”
The Ego and the Id, Ch. V, 'The Subordinate Relationships of the Ego', trans. Joan Riviere (1927)
Freud describes patients whose symptoms worsen with every therapeutic advance, and traces the pattern to an unconscious sense of guilt that seeks punishment in illness.
Citation: "they get worse during the treatment instead of getting better. They exhibit the so-called negative therapeutic reaction" — Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id, Ch. V, 'The Subordinate Relationships of the Ego', trans. Joan Riviere (1927). (id freud-the-ego-and-the-id-q8)
