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(1) The timing of the end and how to bring it about is a procedure which needs to be co-ordinated with the needs of the patient, and therefore will be different in every case. If we hold ourselves too strictly to rules of ending, we are apt to act out rather in our own behalf instead of understanding the meaning of this termination for the patient and to help him in understanding and working it through. (2) We may, through our own behaviour, help the patient to dissolve the transference or to continue it to a large degree after the analysis by overlooking our own counter-transference. The counter-transference is truly the counter part of the transference, because it is through our counter-transference that we keep a transference alive in the patient longer than need be. In doing so we prevent the patient from increasing his reality-testing abilities; a residue of phantasies around the analyst is encouraged to remain undisturbed, and this may become 'potential material' for future sickness. To resolve the counter-transference becomes a major part of the analytic process of termination. (3) The termination of the analysis is an important phase of therapy. It is like the finale in a musical movement which repeats the leading motives of the piece.