ABSTRACT
The therapist has a creative task. In a sense he is continually active, and at times markedly so. This form of psychotherapy is, in the last resort, alone in the service of the individual human being and the freer development of his individuality. The analytic therapeutic character of the situation stems, as said, from the analytic attitude of the conductor. Such an analytic therapeutic attitude is in truth an inner disposition. It rests in the first place in the personality of the therapist as it has developed according to his own natural bent and experiences. The capacity of the therapist to observe what happens in the patient's mind, to comprehend it, rests on his own empathy. The disturbances, psychoneuroses in the broader sense, with which are concerned in psychotherapy go back to experiences in childhood which have been repressed.
