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Clinical psychoanalytic studies need to be supplemented by systematic experimental investigation of the psychoanalytic process. The psychoanalytic situation can be regarded as an experiment in which the attempt is made to study the patient's behavior in interaction with the analyst's behavior as the principal
variables. The analyst behaves in accordance with certain analytic hypotheses and the patient reacts correspondingly. Then the analytic session itself permits one to investigate the power of the hypotheses in helping us to understand, to predict, and to control behavior.