Treatment goals, i.e., the removal of obstacles to the patient's growth and the discovery of what his potentialities are, and life goals, i.e., the goals the patient would arrive at if he could put his potentialities to use, are distinguished. The successful attainment of the treatment goals enables the patient to terminate psychoanalysis and to proceed toward achieving his life goals. From this point of view the technique and the indications for termination of psychoanalysis and for setting the termination date are discussed. Data for these formulations were drawn from the Psychotherapy Research Project at the Menninger Clinic where patients were interviewed at termination and two years later.