This paper addresses the treatment of a patient whose pathology was the result of the intergenerational transmission of unprocessed traumatic parental issues and deeds which could not be mentalind and hence unable to be transformed and worked through. Instead, these were evacuated by acting out with unaileviated persecutory guilt following in its wake. The patient's besieged internal state led to the development of symptoms which offered the hope of freedom from terrors. However, this solution could not succeed as long as the enmeshment with the parental history remained unprocessed. It was only when the patient's own unconscious entanglements were fully understood and worked through that significant changes could occur and finally freeing the patient from the grip of his debilitating symptoms.