ABSTRACT
This chapter considers ‘technique’ as the skills or activities that the therapist carries out
within a psychoanalytic session. These are profoundly influenced by the therapist’s
understanding of psychoanalytic theory and her1 manner of putting it into practice. These
theoretical ideas have to be put into practice. Additionally, what the practitioner believes
to be the purpose of psychoanalytic psychotherapy will influence her ideas about how it
ought to be conducted.
