In this controversial paper, the author distorts the aims and techniques of analysis and of dynamic psychotherapy in order to justify brief treatment of a particularly active type as the treatment of choice in the psychoneuroses. Thus, he reasons, since the patient spends many more hours a day with other meaningful people than he can with a therapist, he has more opportunity to learn new behavior from them. It is therefore necessary that psychotherapy be focused around the present and especially the patient's dealings with the meaningful people in his life. The author acknowledges that this treatment constitutes a direct influence by the therapist upon the patient but insists that there are always elements of this, even in classical analysis. Case material is presented.