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May 9, 1961. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SITUATION: AN EXAMINATION OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND ESSENTIAL NATURE. (Freud Anniversary Lecture.) Leo Stone, M.D.
Dr. Stone describes the development of the analytic situation as a derivative of the physician-patient relationship. In its early beginnings it preserved intact and even exaggerated the authoritative but helpful omniscient attitude characteristic of the physician. In psychoanalysis, the most important residuum of this medical origin is the patient's motivation for treatment—alleviation of suffering and need for help—which is also the central psychodynamic fact and essential to the phenomena of transference. Freud was the first to modify this technique. After dispensing with physical examinations and conventional attitudes toward fees, there emerged our classical conception of the psychoanalytic situation. This current