DISCUSSION: Dr. Melvin A. Scharfman stated that there is nothing even closely equivalent in an adult analysis to the impact the developmental process has on the psychoanalytic process in a child analysis. There are not only changes in the level of the patient's drive organization with corresponding shifts in what is defended against and the means of defense, but there are also broad changes in a variety of ego functions, including the unfolding of the cognitive process. The developmental process has an influence on whether a real transference can develop and on whether the transference can be analyzed or will lead to very intense resistances: the transference pulls a child or adolescent toward the past when they wish to move into the future. Few adult analysts ever experience a situation comparable to what Dr. Jong described: his patient returned from her last summer vacation quite different in many ways from the girl who had left just weeks before. He was then dealing almost with a different person, someone at a different level of organization