Paolino's purpose here is to clarify and consolidate concepts used in assessing analyzability. Analyzability is defined as consisting of two primary requisites, clinical need and a set of interlocking cognitive and emotional capacities. Sixteen categories are described, clustered in the three areas of the capacities per se, environmental conditions, and clinical issues. The capacities noted are the capacity for psychological-mindedness and insight, the capacity to experience feelings within the session rather than just describe them, the capacity not to act out,