ABSTRACT
In 1919 Sigmund Freud gave his keynote paper to the Congress in Budapest, where the psychoanalytic world was reunited after the war Freud's paper concluded with optimism and the sweeping statement that "the large scale application of our therapy will compel us to alloy the pure gold of analysis with the copper of direct suggestion". Despite Freud's vision of a psychoanalysis alloyed with other methods, a constant suspicion has remained that non-interpretive intervention means a pollution of the pure gold, not a useful alloying. At the same time, work with difficult patients has attracted a constant interest in non-interpretive interventions. Edward Glover's paper is valuable as it presents the innovations of active technique against the backdrop of an exposition of psychoanalytic therapy as it was understood then. In the course of his very extensive argument he covered a great deal of the theory of interpretation.
