A PERSPECTIVE ON DOING A CONSULTATION AND MAKING THE RECOMMENDATION OF ANALYSIS TO A PROSPECTIVE ANALYSAND

This paper explores the premise that the analyst's optimistic attitude toward the efficacy of analysis significantly enhances the possibilit y of success in helping prospective analysands accept the recommendati on of analysis. This enthusiastic attitude reflects the author's opini on that analysis is the optimal treatment, the best form of psychother apy for most adults. From this perspective, all patients seen in consu ltation are regarded as analyzable; this attitude is maintained until a prospective analysand proves he/she is unanalyzable in a trial of an alysis. Analytic data from six consultations conducted from this persp ective are presented and discussed.