ABSTRACT
In the 1950s and 1960s, especially in North America, the analysis of ego activities, ego defences, replaced the concern with modifying drives as an indication that treatment is successful. Interpersonal analysts always regarded the patient-analyst relationship as central in analytic work. The last two decades of the twentieth century that the views gained influence and is incorporated into the mainstream psychoanalytic movement in North America. It is the particular method by which one attains expansion, modulation of affect states, and deeper engagement in life and relationships that might still differ among various theoretical schools. The nature of the relationship, the specifics of characteristics and experiences of the analyst is taken into consideration in terms of how they approached ending analyses. Holmes linked types of endings to an analyst's particular attachment style. The analyst's personal history of separation and loss and experience in termination are also now thought to influence the nature of the process in ending with the patients.
