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Hoffer proposes three considerations for the termination of psychoanalytic treatment:
1Has the analysis succeeded in bringing the unconscious and conscious nearer together?
2Is the patient able to recognize and handle resistances so that he is able to gain better access to the preconscious and unconscious?
3Has the transference neurosis been resolved so that the patient can remember the past instead of acting it out?
In elaborating upon some of these points Hoffer stresses the important role of the patient's identification with the activities of the analyst. He believes that one of the most important solutions to the transference neurosis is the patient's capacity to analyze his conflicts instead of acting them out.