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In this article, the author describes an unusual situation that resulted from his decision to publish a clinical report of aspects of an analysis. He asked the patient's permission to publish and she agreed. However, she also asked to read the report. The analysand had a strong reaction to the analyst's paper, particularly to his depiction of her, to which she subsequently wrote a response. The author deemed that her response was of considerable psychoanalytic interest. The analyst's paper and the analysand's response then appeared as a joint publication. The author further describes his conflicts and emotions, often painful, which arose from this written encounter beyond the analytic dialogue. In the article he also offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of the written encounter, the patient's response, and its effects on the analytic process.