DISCUSSION: Dr. Rudolph Loewenstein discussed the process and effect of interpretations and reconstructions, and stressed the intimate connection with verbal phenomena in the analytic process. Hartmann has described the complicated effect on the neurotic complex by way of the 'multiple appeal' of interpretations. Sometimes the symptom complex does not yield to interpretation, but then suddenly, after one well thought-out interpretation, there may be a dramatic change; at other times it appears that the interpretation is effective only when the reconstruction is the crowning of a long labor preceding it. In Dr. Sachs' patient the role of words appears to have played an important