ABSTRACT
A recent monograph by Jerome Oremland (1991) with a critical chapter by me details how the analytic situation, including interpretations, is an interactive one. This insight has important implications for the distinction between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, in the narrow sense, that is, as distinguished from the broad sense, in which psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy. Although I have already discussed this topic to some extent in my introduction, I will now elaborate on it.
