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A brief review is presented of some of the contributions made by various authors to the problem of expediting psychoanalysis. Gutheil suggests a somewhat cryptic 'reform of the technique of interpretation', especially a 'simplification of dream interpretation'. The analyst is supposed to merely abstract the psychodynamic factors of a dream without the 'selective' associations of the patient to the parts of the manifest content. The analyst, Gutheil thinks, will by the method of Stekel secure a penetrating psychodynamic insight into the instinctive cravings, defenses, gratifications, anxieties, etc. An illustrative case is presented wherein the author's own associations to the dream clarified his other available material. It would appear to be a truism that his twenty years of experience permits him to judge when 'experience and intuition tell him that the opportunity has arrived' to make an active interpretation in the analysis. It is not, however, entirely clear how he, himself avoids the criticism which he levels at those who, 'in their own free associations' use the older concepts of dream symbolism.