With this denial of external realit

With this denial of external reality there co-existed his inability to the internal psychic realities, and a great deal of work had to be done before any increase in tolerance occurred. As his fears of his psychic mechanisms decreased, it became possible for him to allowtheir presence to manifest itself by a movement of their representation in his stream of associations into a more central position. Only when I had been able to demonstrate how bad I was on all levels of his mind did it become possible for him first to recognize his mechanisms ofsplitting and personification and then to employ them, as it were in reverse, to establish the contact which they had originally been usedto break. After the demonstration of the imaginary twin I began to beallowed existence as a real person and not a thing created by himselfuntil the point, already mentioned, when I felt I was allowed to existmore or less passively watching his play, and finally as a consultant.In the session I have described with B, despite some appearances tothe contrary, I was still only an identical twin.