title: The patient's own pillow on the couch.
abstract: Material is presented from two hypochondriacal patients who insisted on using their own pillows on top of the bolster-pillow on the analyst's couch. A number of important transference fantasies are seen as underlying this unusual resistance to the progress of the analysis. In addition, the analyst's countertransference feelings are described.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001009:Anxiety, Castration / Q000523:psychology; D003379:Countertransference; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006998:Hypochondriasis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013561:Symbolism; D014167:Transference, Psychology