A decade ago, I began presenting papers on analysts' attitudes towards change in psychoanalysis. I undertook this task because I noticed a paucity of psychoanalytic literature on published clinical material examining change, and because I hardly ever heard the subject mentioned by colleagues in informal discussions. Initially, what surprised me was a considerable sense of gratitude among analysts at these meetings for my raising a subject that seemed to be tacitly on their minds but appeared to be difficult for them to articulate. It was only upon reading about the difficulties encountered by Uruguayan candidates requiring them to synthesize clinical data for their graduation papers, as described in Time for Change, that I began to appreciate the problems faced by many analysts in trying to measure change in their analytic work.