ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part looks at the use of standardized psychometric questionnaires, which were used to establish an audit of a primary care service. This audit was essentially about effectiveness of treatment. The part discusses the psychoanalytical treatment from the point of view of it being an iterative learning system. It proposes that any psychotherapeutic treatment must have the potential to both disturb and contain. It describes the stage for thinking about the qualities of the system in which there is input from the analytic exchange and output reflecting learning in both the psychoanalyst and the analysand. There is the quality of presence and absence of party from the other which forms an essential feature contributing to the power of iteration. In addition, there is the quality of presence and absence of party from the other which forms an essential feature contributing to the power of iteration.
