ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the attention to two hazards for the analyst intrinsic to the conduct of psychoanalysis. They are: ‘enclaves’ and ‘excursions’. In the course of clinical work, an analyst may be at risk of so responding to his patient that he forms an enclave, or takes an excursion out of analysis, and thereby deforms the psychoanalytic situation so that the therapeutic process is interfered with or even halted. Some patients besiege the analyst to go on excursions with them. Going on excursions with patients, or forming an enclave with them, are among the hazards intrinsic to the therapeutic endeavour. With a less ill patient the risk of excursions occurs not continually but at times of special anxiety, when the patient may try to induce the analyst to foreclose with a pat interpretation, or give practical guidance or have an intellectual discussion.
