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component as an important factor in the psychopathology. In the
case of Dr. Brill's patient it is probable that a cessation of the
autoerotic indulgences may bring about the possibility of a
transference. Dr. Stern suggested that such patients, where possible,
should be kept under long treatment, when the narcissistic com- i j
ponents and the autoerotic ones also, might be displaced by j j
object love.
July 20, 1921. Adolph Stern.
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