Deploring the current denigration of psychoanalysis, the author states: 'Experience has shown transference interpretation to be the single most dynamic and reliable source of real change in both individual and group treatment'. She deprecates 'technomania', the indiscriminate use of unproven procedures. However, analytically oriented therapists err in interpreting minutiae rather than appreciating the whole personality of the patient. This happens especially when the therapist is overwhelmed by the complexity and abstract nature of psychoanalytic theory and confused by the conflict of reason and emotion. The