Rickman believes that for an analysis to be satisfactorily terminated both the patient and the analyst have to be satisfied. One of the important criteria for termination he calls 'irreversibility'. This refers to the process of improvement in integration and adaptability which would be of such a degree and kind that without further analytic aid there will be no reverse processes or regression upon the cessation of treatment. This can be accomplished once the treatment has removed the major obstacles to the action of the integrative processes which are operative within every living organism. He then looks more microscopically at other elements of the successful termination: 1. the capacity to move smoothly in memory from the past to the present and back; 2. the capacity for heterosexual, genital satisfaction; 3. the capacity to tolerate libidinal frustration without regression or anxiety; 4. the capacity to work and to endure unemployment; 5. the capacity to tolerate aggressive impulses in oneself and others without