ABSTRACT
During 1997 and 1998 a group of psychoanalytic psychotherapists met quarterly to explore once-a-week work. The collator has tried to find a format that would be true to the collaborative nature of the venture. The presentation is not tightly organized, and is inconclusive; the author and his group felt that the arguments had to be kept in play and that the time was right only for tentative hypotheses about the circumstances in which greater or lesser frequency might be indicated. To anticipate is as intense for them, and as worth while, as other work. When they came to the end of their series, the author and his group knew that they had only been able to touch the fringes of a complex set of issues. They became conscious of interprofessional political implications. The main conclusion was that seeing people on a once-a-week basis needs as much skill, was as intense and as worth while as other work.
