Discusses the psychotherapeutic treatment of patients suffering from the continued aftereffects of early traumas and enmeshed in destructive, dependent relationships. The author is part of a clinical team that treats such patients, often suffering also from severe somatizations. The patients are, moreover, characterized by a specific contact disorder, produced by the convergence of the patient's isolation and the environment's indifference: analysts treating such cases must combine unusual sensitivity and strength. The pathognomonic clinical picture of early-traumatized patients includes a "devitalization of object relations." This theme is illustrated with a clinical example. The therapeutic process is described using the Ancient Egyptian myth of the resurrection and healing of Osiris by his wife, Isis, as a constructive framework of therapeutic ethics.