ABSTRACT
That I place psychotherapy alongside and on the same level as psychoanalysis does not mean, however, that I regard them as being part of one and the same vague ensemble. So as not to create any misunderstanding, let me repeat that for me psychoanalysis remains the model; the psychotherapies result essentially from the impossibility of creating a situation which respects the requirements of this model. Psychoanalysis remains in any case the reference. Let us begin, then, with the psychoanalytic treatment. It is perhaps as well to acknowledge right away, though, that the plural is more apposite.The model is the abstraction to which diverse realizations refer.
