In “Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Therapy” Freud (1919) stated that “the large-scale application of our therapy will compel us to alloy the pure gold of analysis freely with the copper of direct suggestion” (pp. 167-168). In part because of Freud's comment, psychoanalysts have tended to see psychotherapy as equated with suggestion and inferior to psychoanalysis. As Morton Aronson correctly notes in Psychotherapy: The Analytic Approach, edited by Aronson and Melvin Scharfman, there exists a dearth of psychotherapy case reports and papers in the analytic literature compared to the degree to which