The authors feel that the definition of transference as a projection of the patient's infantile feelings, thoughts, and wishes onto the analyst is inadequate because it does not take into consideration the interpersonal framework, patient and analyst, in the analytic situation. They argue that what seems infantile in the patient is really quite appropriate when one considers the unusualness of the analytic situation—free association, time, money, recumbency of patient, unresponsiveness of analyst. They feel that the patient's adjustment to this awkward situation, rather than interpretation of the transference per se, is what is responsible for change in the patient. Self-understanding may be an accompanying, but not necessarily crucial, factor. They conclude that it is the context in which understanding takes place, rather than understanding itself, that leads to improvement in the patient.