The telephone can be a useful adjunct to the psycho-analytic technique. This is shown in a case in which it served to overcome a resistance which was occasioned by a too intense transference reaction while the patient was in the presence of the therapist. Unable to talk in his presence, she was able to do so on the telephone. As this became well analysed, she was able to handle the transference in the interviews and improved rapidly. The telephone was resorted to because other methods had failed. Besides its value as a specific aid in the technique of analysis, it can serve merely as a means of communication to increase the analyst's services in diagnosis, referrals, and treatment.

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