ABSTRACT
Both as a scientific inquiry into the human condition and as a journey of discourse that is healing for the individual, the uniqueness of psychoanalytic discipline has become obfuscated over the past century. The distinctions between this discipline and the contemporary assortment of psychotherapies (including those that call themselves psychoanalytic) have been obscured. The preceding chapters have attempted to restore the distinctiveness of a science of healing that is attentive to the four coordinates that delineate what Freud discovered about our humanity. Since those chapters were focused on complex theoretical matters, it seems warranted to turn now to some of the concrete practicalities of psychoanalytic process, and offer some personal notes sketching the conduct of this discipline under the aegis of these coordinates.
