ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the hypothesis that the psychoanalytical procedure, in and of itself, has the property of disturbing an analysand's psychic structures. The analysand, as an open system, must be in interaction with his environment—if only simply to stay alive—and must, at the same time, defend himself by maintaining his boundaries. The parallels with open systems theory models thus become very clear. The idea of a strange attractor comes from the theory of iterating systems. The implication is that the effect of increasing the number of sessions per week is not predictable in a simple additive way. There are a number of implications arising from the lack of a clear reason for distinguishing the effects of increasing frequencies. These include the obvious technical implication of how to recommend to a prospective analysand the frequency appropriate for them.
