ABSTRACT
Serge Viderman trained as a psychiatrist and became a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society in 1960. Interpretation is at the heart of psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic technique is based on it. Psychoanalysts are sure that the countertransference designates irrational zones of their personality. The countertransference is not the analyst's transference. The fact that the analyst plays a role even when he refuses to do so is something analysis cannot avoid. The extreme consequences of playing a role deliberately, and as a matter of principle, can be clearly seen in the case of Franz Alexander. Alexander, a Hungarian American psychoanalyst and physician, is considered to be one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and forensic psychoanalysis. He was one of numerous analysts between the 1930s and the 1950s who were engaged with the question of how to shorten the course of therapy but still achieve therapeutic effectiveness.
