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The authors have reviewed selected publications and videotapes of the actual work of several psychoanalysts who are prominently identified with short-term
dynamic psychotherapy, and they propose an explanation for their success which would go beyond the concept of transference cure. They suggest that these treatments are as effective as psychoanalysis proper because accurate deep interpretations are, in fact, made. In short-term dynamic psychotherapy, however, the therapist utilizes some important modifications of classical psychoanalytic technique to make such interpretations acceptable to the patient. Examples of these modified techniques include the rapid juxtaposition of genetic and concurrent events with transference interpretation, active disconfirmation of the patient's transferential view of the therapist, and active expression of empathy and emotional support. The authors suggest that recent theories of memory as creative reconstruction do away with earlier concerns that such comments may prove to be inexact interpretations, and so make short-term work credible. There follows a long but incomplete bibliography on this topic.