ABSTRACT
Sometimes one finds that the depth of interpersonal contact achieved in the session carries through to the end. When this happens, it can be a moving experience as therapist and patient revisit anxieties and other feelings prompted in the opening minutes of the session, now in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Often, the resolution of what to do next is best left to a follow-up meeting, when both therapist and patient have had a chance to think and to consult others. It is all very well when therapist and patient arrive at agreement over the outcome of a consultation. Even if the interview has been choppy, and the decision is not to proceed with the psychoanalytic psychotherapy, it is often possible to come to a shared view of what has taken place, and why psychotherapy would probably not be helpful.
