This article describes psychotherapy with a patient who exhibited symptoms of sexual identity confusion, perverse sexual activity, and character disorder. The therapy was concerned primarily with the underlying three-layered defensive structure of the patient's neurotic condition, which was revealed in the games the patient initiated with others, including the therapist.
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