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Once physical symptoms actually appear within this system however, they are to some extent accepted as any other established pattern, at least by a portion of the personality. In some cases physical symptoms can actually make up a somewhat independent supersonality structure. This is the case with many chronically-ill individuals. The destructive tendencies are collected about a particularly emotionally-charged group of reactions, and cut off from the dominant personality.

This would imply short-term memory you see, but this is not the case, for it is intensity and not duration that makes the difference. Once the symptoms become physical however, then they follow physical patterns, and it takes the physical system some time to heal usually, (underlined). In terms of intensity alone, both the foot and the hip symptoms were highly charged, representing of course degrees of immobility and withdrawal—learned, you see, from the mother: a memory reaction adopted without conscious thought.