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The author, a member of the Academy of Psychoanalysis, recommends that the couch be abandoned since it is a ridiculous anachronism that only serves to keep
the therapist comfortable by keeping him uninvolved with the patient. He thinks that with the couch transference is not real, and that transference interpretations are intellectualized evasions of a real emotional interchange.