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With an increased number of candidates coming to analysis to satisfy educational rather than therapeutic needs, the analysis often becomes analysis of an
asymptomatic character. Often experience in training (classes and supervision) arouses anxieties and brings defenses into focus, facilitating the analytic process. But a training analysis is educational, and in this sense interminable.
Weigert stresses the importance of the analyst's working through his countertransference feelings. Dissolution of the transference resistance brings about firmer integration of the patient's personality and a greater frankness and clarity in free associations. Also the potential countertransference reactions of the analyst subside and he feels freer from anxiety and more spontaneous. Weigert seems to agree with Balint that training analyses necessarily become longer as we seek to activate the negative transference to bring to attention destructive pregenital impulses with concomitant dependency. Termination is indicated when the analysand dares to relinquish a dependent identification for a mutually respectful differentiation, when anxieties about loss and incorporation, and unrealistic concern about success or failure, can be transcended. Both analysand and analyst reach the point of collaborative truthfulness. Weigert uses Balint's term 'research analysis'. A research analysis emphasizes the common goal of analyst and analysand to strive for the ideals of scientific truth as well as for freedom from unconscious anxieties and conflicts.