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IN THIS PAPER I DISCUSS my use of some of personal experiences in treating regressed patients and my techniques other than those of interpreting resistance to help patients speak of omitted material. It will become clear that I have become selectively more aggressive in therapy.
During the more than 35 years in which my practice has consisted primarily of the office treatment of regressed patients, frequently a primitive, psychosis-prone variety of the borderline category, I have had far better results using psychoanalysis with few parameters (Eissler, 1953) than with face to face psychotherapy.2 Early