ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents psychotherapy in 1959 and, while a full-time professor for a number of years after that, continued to see patients, gradually increasing the number he worked with until he began formal psychoanalytic training some fifteen years later. The following three patients were seen during the author's training at a Psychoanalytic Institute in the late 1970s. They are Ralph, Judith, and Gregor. “Ralph” was a man the author saw in 1959 when he was doing his predoctoral internship at The Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco. Judith was, in many ways, an ideal case in classical psychoanalytic terms. She lay on the couch, and a number of the author's interpretations were focused on the transference. Gregor suffered from extreme anorexia/bulimia—quite rare in a man his age—sleep disturbance, fainting spells, and a variety of related symptoms.
