ABSTRACT
The analyst, unlike the psychotherapist or counsellor working in a different way at longer intervals, has plenty of opportunity to observe daily changes and immediate responses to the interpretations made. Analyst and patient are doing a lot of work together which less frequent therapies require the patient to do away from the therapist. A reader would see signs of sexual conflicts in the material he presents, where Anna Freud apparently failed to notice it at all, or only after weeks of painstaking work. In an analytical relationship the analyst is paid by the patient to help sort out what the patient feels are his or her psychic problems. As the patient enters the room, lies down on the couch with the analyst behind his head, and begins to speak and to listen, there are many levels of communication which can be observed.
