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contrast to her being engulfed by it before she started the medication.
Her bulimia has waxed and waned over the course of our work.
In the later years she was able to use behavioral strategies
with success and was also able to turn to people in her life other
than me for involvement. When she became overwhelmed by the
vicissitudes of life, she still sought relief in the bulimic cycle. This
occurred following the breakup of her first intimate relationship with
a man. She attended college where she experienced success in her
courses and satisfaction in her social life.
At a time when lengthy psychoanalytic psychotherapy is on the
wane, Laura stands out as a person in whom the complex interplay of
issues required very intensive work over time to enable her to evolve
and realize her potential as a competent and integrated person.
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