ABSTRACT
A thorough review of the subject of analyzability would begin with the question of "what is analysis?". This chapter provides ideas about the differences between doing analysis and assessing analyzability. The assessment of analyzability, however, leads to an agenda, a focus. One cannot assess analyzability globally, but must have some specific characteristics in mind that one is trying to evaluate. Waldhorn writing about the work of the Kris Study Group in the late 1950s spells out the problems of attempting to assess analyzability on the basis of diagnosis and symptoms. He stresses the importance of assessing first and foremost the ego's organization and function, pointing out that the superego is harder to get a handle on, and the id is "damned near impossible." To emphasize the focus on assessing ego strengths, the chapter provides a list, a check sheet, of attributes which were either "good for the Jews" or "bad for the Jews."
