The telephone is a useful technical adjunct to psychoanalysis. A case is cited in which it served to overcome a resistance occasioned by too intense transference reactions when 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 was analyzed, it was possible to resolve the transference in interviews and she 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 also as a means of therapeutic communication, and increase the analyst's services in diagnosis, referrals, and treatment.