“…Despite the unease about taking a dark and uncertain path, pressured by a feeling of guilt for not rigorously following the principles of neutrality and abstinence, in an unconventional setting, the conviction that I was on the right path was supported by the evident improvement of my patient. This is the validation described by Cassorla (2003). That girl-Vicky, who could not bear to hear a no, who could not cope with waiting, who was never able to feel depressed because she would immediately become desperate and resort to drugs, who could not understand why a person should not want to live eternally feeling 'always and forever nothing but pleasure', had now, after a relatively short period of treatment (ten years), become a different person, capable of emotions such as some empathy, some sadness, concern for the future and the consequences of her actions, preoccupation with her objects and her body.…”