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Apart from having to undo some of the unfavorable types of interaction between the patient and the previous analyst, so as not to repeat them, there is no evidence that reanalysis poses different technical problems from analysis. If anything, where the term reanalysis applies strictly, the work is easier because the patient's cooperation is more assured. The greatest number of people who make a second, third, or fourth attempt fall either into the category of the so-called non-analyzable patients or those who need a great deal of psychotherapy before analysis can be envisaged.
All of those who seek treatment need it; the tendency, nay aspiration, of being able to treat whoever presents himself in the broad range of mental suffering is eminently justifiable, pragmatic, and in keeping with the medical tradition and the philosophy of a healer. The problem is how to make the method more useful for the patients, how to perfect our methods of dealing with them so as to avoid the years of unproductive work and wastefulness that I have had an opportunity to witness in my work and that of others.