ABSTRACT
The problem of premature termination of analysis falls within the wider area of acting-out and is intimately connected to issues that the psychoanalytic literature has thoroughly discussed: analysability, transference, countertransference, negative therapeutic reaction. The development of these issues plays an important role in the history of psychoanalysis. The lack of researches on this particular way an analysis may end is of considerable importance, since in contrast bibliography about the numerous problems that may emerge during an analysis and the ways it may come to an end is superabundant. Although it seems that premature terminations can occur at any phase of analysis, the risk is magnified in specific moments of the analytic process. Psychoanalysis owes a good deal of its clinical progress to the elaboration of situations that were considered to be negative. This should encourage us to continue our research in the same area, to which premature terminations unquestionably belong.
