ABSTRACT
I found myself a patient in a psychoanalyst's of®ce as much by default as by choice. My previous psychotherapy had been terminated by unexpected, unwanted changes in external circumstances that required an abrupt termination of what had been a very productive, long-term psychotherapy. In the small city where I lived, it was dif®cult to ®nd a therapist with whom I did not have some degree of professional or personal familiarity. I knew that the most likely choice would be someone within the psychoanalytic community, in which my involvement at that time was minimal. At my request, I was referred to Dr. D by my clinical consultant, a Jungian trained analytical psychologist. I knew only that Dr. D was one of the senior psychoanalysts in the city and that he had been classically trained.
