Bridger confines his discussion of criteria for the termination of analysis to two sets of situations which ought to provide the analyst with reliable opportunities for predicting the termination point. The first set is comprised of short-term experiments in termination which the patient experiences throughout analysis by getting along on his own between one session and the next. The second set comprises those experiences in the patient's external world which involve a termination of relationships such as change of job, place of residence, divorce, etc. This gives the analyst a series of periodic progress reports on the patient's preparedness for termination.