ABSTRACT
Regarding the criteria for termination of an analysis, Klein (1950) wrote,
have persecutory and depressive anxieties been suf®ciently reduced . . . has the patient's relation to the external world been suf®ciently strengthened to enable him to deal satisfactorily with the situation of mourning arising at this point? By analyzing as fully as possible both the negative and positive transference, persecutory and depressive anxieties are diminished and the patient becomes increasingly able to synthesize the contrasting aspects of the primary objects, and the feelings towards them, thus establishing a more realistic and secure attitude to the internal and the external world. If these processes have been suf®ciently experienced in the transference situation both the idealization of the analyst and the feelings of being persecuted by him are diminished.
