This paper constitutes a preliminary report on a study in process at the Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Detailed data from two patients, three and four years after analysis, and general data from nine other patients are utilized to demonstrate both the study design and its tentative findings. Follow-up data were obtained by an analyst not involved in the original treatment. Two to seven vis-à-vis interviews were used to obtain a comparison of past and current status, to evaluate evidences of new and old symptoms, to seek evidences of residual transference and indications of current capacities. In the several cases involved, the patients equated follow-up interviews with their