title: Some notes on insight and its failures.
abstract: Many patients who had been in a prior psychoanalysis or psychotherapy have a view that "insight" has not been useful to them. The previous treatment has often been condensed into a screen memory serving a variety of functions. An attempt is made in this paper to explore problems of the effectiveness of insight and its relation to a range of ego functions, transference issues, and related fantasy systems.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology