ABSTRACT
Treatment by psychoanalysis often leaves the symptomatology untouched for a period of time during which social repercussions may infinitely complicate the issue; treatment may necessitate the child's removal from a good-enough home to a strange setting and this again is a complication that were better avoided. There is a vast clinical demand for psychotherapy that is not related in any way to the supply of psycho-analysts, and therefore if there is a type of case that can be helped by one or three visits to a psycho-analyst this vastly extends the social value of the analyst. The therapist cashes in on what the patient brings and acts up to the limit of the chance that this affords. Many patients do indeed expect to be basically understood immediately, and it might be said that we either fit in with this or else we work on the basis of "psycho-analysis or nothing."
