ABSTRACT
Author taught residents and medical students at Evanston Hospital, at that time a branch of Northwestern University Medical School, and on the Chicago campus of that school, for a couple of afternoons a week for about fifty years. Therefore, his investigations of numerous borderline patients catalyzed his thinking about psychodynamic psychotherapy over and over again. Going along with his attempt to hook together science and the humanities in the spirit of Freud, this was followed by his more technical and updated formal presentation of the technique and practice of intensive psychotherapy, a book reprinted a couple of times. At the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1976, he presented a talk titled “What is psychotherapy?”. He tried to differentiate between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and other psychotherapies by introducing the issue of the development of a workable transference.
