ABSTRACT
You must have noticed that occasionally I seem to have slipped and written of “the therapist” rather than “the analyst.” It is time to confess that the slips were intentional and occurred when the issues under discussion applied equally to therapists doing psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Indeed, there could have been more such instances, for there are very few occasions when it is necessary to draw a principled distinction between psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as they are practiced. I stress as practiced, to preclude argument about differences at the level of philosophy.
