ABSTRACT
This Symposium has for me a déjà vu feeling. In 1961 I took part in the International Congress Symposium on Therapeutic Factors in Psychoanalysis.At that time I contended that Freud’s basic proposition that insight is the specific therapeutic factor in psychoanalysis still holds true. The paper was controversial in that other views were represented, such as, that it is the relationship that is therapeutic or the love of the analyst, as expounded by Nacht.149 My view was that all those factors are inter-related in that insight develops in a relationship and in turn affects the nature of the relationship.
