“…1395, 1400)This is not to say, however, that more disturbed patients cannot be helped by psychoanalytically informed work. Lower frequency, longer duration work (Heller, ) can facilitate the building up of attachment without demanding a level of initial enforced closeness sufficiently threatening to ‘switch off’ any tentative capacity to mentalize (Bateman & Fonagy, ). For some patients, less may really be more, with longer spaces between sessions helping to regulate the intensity of the therapeutic process that might otherwise be ‘regulated’ by missing sessions or dropping out, enabling the therapist to remain a bearable and useful object in the psychologically fragile patient's mind, rather than the overwhelming, alien introject they may otherwise become.…”