In a message dated 8/31/03 10:09:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

? In this list the choice is everyday analysis, I think

Not necessarily. I use some form of psychoanalytic intervention in all my contacts with patients but it is not standard psychoanalysis. I sometimes have only one session with someone (I work in a prison reception center) and I also work in once weekly groups. As you remember, Freud sometimes saw a person only once (such as when he met Katharina on the mountain [Studies on Hysteria]). Analysis must not always require everyday contact, although people who are being trained as psychoanalysts generally go at least 4 times weekly.

Diane Gartland
Michigan