This paper reports in detail the phenomena associated with the study of one of five subjects who were examined two or more years following completion of an analysis deemed satisfactory by analyst and analysand. This subject's protocol was selected because of its typical character and because of the subject's ability to portray the subjective side of the research experience, thus increasing the amount of information available for examination.

The subjects experienced the follow-up studies as though they were analyses. The interviews seemed to produce recapitulations of their analyses, i.e., transferences: their associated defenses and characteristics appeared, intensified and resolved.