ABSTRACT
The frame of psychoanalytic therapy is not a rigid structure like a picture frame. It does not enclose a static tableau. There might have been a time in the early days when the method was in its inception and analysands were largely neurotic. At that time a more fixed sense of the frame was reasonable. However, today our patients largely suffer from mixed neuroses, character neuroses, or high-level borderline and narcissistic character disorders. Our field has matured and expanded to include everything from intersubjectivity to micro-ego analysis and many other modifications into the “classical” methods.
