A psychoanalysis is, in essence, a dialogue. The patient's freedom of expression is sought, and the analyst limits himself to facilitating the patient's expression. The interpretations are always in 'the bipersonal realm of the transference-countertransference area'. The patient is handled as a person, not as a disease. Should a medical general practitioner without analytic training use psychoanalysis? The answer is obviously no. Being a physician does not of itself give one understanding of psychoanalytic processes. Analytic training has become longer and longer; so has medical training. Proper analytic therapy thus is becoming harder to obtain in most communities.