Penetrating questions about the state of psychoanalysis in the age of managed care were at the heart of Warren Poland's stimulating and provocative talk on the “problem” of long analyses.

Given the rigors of the analytic task, are long analyses always a “problem”? How long is too long? How do we measure time in psychoanalysis when the unconscious itself is timeless? Whose time are we measuring—the analyst's or the patient's?

While acknowledging the validity of concerns about possible stalemates, Poland