Abstract: . . .  material, for example, is a technical device' while the resolution of transference by its interpretation is a therapeutic device. The essentiar clifference between psychoanalysis and other psychotherapres haslongbeenseenu..onrirtingpreciselyinthis-thatpsychoanalysisaloneofthepsychotherapiesattemptsto resolve the suggestive influence of the therapist on the patient' Until recently any innovation introduced into psychoanalytic technique was scrutinized from this point of view-rvas it inhoducing a suggestive . . .
. . .  introducing stlggestron in the treatment, with no subsequent effort to resolve it. B't this is the q'estion which m'st be asked of anything done bythetherapist,whetherimplicitlyorexplicitly'whichismorethaninterpretation' TheextenttowlrichsrrchcautioncanandshoulclgoisveryinterestinglyseeninGlover'spaper(23)on',The Therapeutic Effects of Inexact Interpretation'"  . . .
. . .  patients whose egos are theoretically unsuitable for psychoanalysis likewise extend over a very wide range. Here too there are elnergency situations such as panics in psychotic characters, ancl again the treatment is likely to be supportive rather thau exploratory and the therapist to be more interactive. But ambitiogs attempts at reconstruction can be undertaken with patients whose egos are unsuitable for psychoanalysis , such as the psychotic and the delinquent. Here it must be remembered that the . . .
. . .  psychoanalysis Page 1 (1954) J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 2:77'l'797 Psychoanalysis and Exploratory Psychotherapyl My general topic is a comparison "rrrr.r::;j,l;,"" i*ltherapy as merhods of treatment. .fhe task facing such a discussion is to steer a course between the Scylla of rigid orthodoxy and the CharVbdis of opporfunistic heterodoxy. I am not . . .
. . .  where a stntctural change' 2ForanexcellentdescriptionseeColeman,Jules,"TheInitialPhaseof psychotherapy"'Bull ll'lenn (llinic' vol l3'No 6'pp 189-198' . ilir) -. inclrcecl by the analytlc process, ought to take prace-r'rave become snperfluous." I ar-n in general agreement with this point of view, but I think it may act to retard somewhat the more positive description of what can achrally take plu.. in intensive psychotherapy of what I have called the intermediate kind' IthinkthatculTentpositionsonthisproblemmaybeilluminatedbyaglanceattheirhistory'becausetheyare . . .
. . .  the interpretation will have an . "1)i I effect as forcefgl on the patient as overt behavior, must be a relatively strong ego. But this is the kind of ego, we have agreed, which the psychoanalytic technique demands' A really full exploration of this topic would involve cletailed discussion of affect and intellect in the theory of therapy and interpretation, of symbolic and overt behavior, of intetpersonal and intrapsychic interaction, and is beyond the scope of this presentation. But I should like . . .
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