This paper reports the effect of consistent use of playback of the recorded analytic session for the purpose of working through. Two things clearly emerge: (1) Applied with the caution required of every therapeutic measure, playback does not interfere with the analytic process. (2) Playback is, in the majority of cases, helpful in overcoming typical, in many instances, considerable and often unbridgable, difficulties. Relistening in a state of detachment allows the patients to objectify their behavior in greater independence from the analyst and to integrate more efficiently the insight gained in the analytic process.