To appreciate this article one must have already been converted to the use of short-term psychotherapy and be impressed by big names and big statistics. Six hours of therapy and three thousand patients are the magical numbers used. There is some question as to why it seems so essential to the author that this particular kind of therapy (or non-therapy) be done under the ægis of psychoanalysis to which it seems so diametrically opposed. One wonders if a single patient from the three thousand was later referred for psychoanalysis. The phrase, 'the reality of the time limit', referring to the six hours imposed on the patient, sounds like unreality for many patients.