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In this text the author comes to grips with his central theme by means of a method that is canonical in psychoanalytical literature, characterised here by the very detailed account of a single case—observed on this occasion from the viewpoint of the termination of the analysis—and also by the division of the content into two clearly differentiated parts (which are, however, closely related in a general sense)—the one part clinical, the other part theoretical.
Antonio Pérez-Sánchez, a teaching member of the Sociedad Española de Psicoanálisis, is a psychoanalyst with longstanding clinical and teaching experience, well aware, as he assures us in his book's introduction, of the risks implied by the use of this method for transmitting the analytical experience. Because of this, he felt the need to add an appendix (Capítulo XI) to justify the choice of method and defend it a priori from possible criticisms regarding the material's veracity and possible bias. Thus, this last chapter in fact becomes the book's real introduction, because it also contains a brief history of its genesis. The book's origin appears to be a detailed transcription of the initial sessions of an analysis, made for supervision purposes. A later impasse led the author to revisit this detailed record of the sessions, and finally Pérez-Sánchez resolved to write an internal scientific paper, not for publication, about the termination of the analysis, based on this material.
If I have focused attention in this way on the text's genesis, it is because this makes it possible to have a better understanding of the limitations that come to light in the course of reading it. One of these is the notable disproportion between the clinical part, to which the author devotes eight chapters, and the theoretical, which has only two chapters. In addition, the volume of the clinical material communicated is quite excessive—full of details which allow us to see the analytical process and the author's way of working very ad