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This paper, given at a conference of Independent (Middle) Group analysts, examines the various agents that are used to effect psychic change in the patient. The agents described are (1) transference interpretations, (2) extratransference interpretations, (3) reconstructions, (4) therapeutic regression, (5) techniques, other than interpretation, to overcome analytic impasse.
A subsidiary aim of the paper is to demonstrate that the view that psychic change is effected only by transference interpretations of the mutative variety is clinically insupportable; a further aim is to examine briefly the role of therapeutic regression as such an agency for psychic change.