The training of general practitioners and medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapeutic methods has become important with the realization that a substantial number of persons asking surgical and medical assistance are in fact suffering emotional problems. A case is decribed in detail to illustrate how a physician discussing a patient in a seminar involving an analyst and several other physicians can become aware of an unconscious negative countertransference interfering with his therapeutic handling of a patient, and can as a result effect beneficial changes in his behavior toward the patient. The doctor benefits even though the origins of the countertransference or his personal life are not explored.