Six subjects who were waiting for therapy appeared to have a "spontaneous" recovery with improvement in terms of their own self-description. On the basis of blind TAT analysis this group appeared to be as poorly adjusted at the end of their period of waiting for therapy as they had been when they first applied, and significantly poorer than those subjects who had completed therapy. "The 'improvement' appears to be characterized by a strengthening of neurotic defenses and a denial of the need for help." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)