ABSTRACT
Analytical psychologists as a group appear to concern themselves less with problems of technique than perhaps any other comparable group of therapists. Most of the published work follows Jung's own writings in concentrating on psychological content rather than on method, and yet this very content, the data on which we depend to enlarge our knowledge, may well depend on the method used to collect it. The analyst is, however loosely, structuring the analytic situation. In some important respects Freud's and Jung's approaches depended on different implied images of the analytical interaction. Psychoanalysts following Freud have, in spite of modifications in technique, clung to these two basic concepts: the validity of free association and the clear differentiation of role in analyst and analysand. Jung's emphasis on the equal status of analyst and analysand has somewhat obscured the fact that each participant has an essentially different role.
