title: Unresolved grief presenting with features of a negative therapeutic reaction.
abstract: A 44-year-old depressed widow in psychodynamic psychotherapy suffered repeated relapses of symptoms following improvement. This was seen as a negative therapeutic reaction.
authors.affiliation: Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Nightingale
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012008:Recurrence