ABSTRACT
In response to the 75th anniversary of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the journal that published Franz Alexander’s original manuscript dealing with the corrective emotional experience, I was asked to write an article that examined Alexander’s (1950) paper in light of developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. It provided me with a chance to look, more than 50 years after its publication, at one of the quirkiest and odd articles in the history of the psychoanalytic literature.
