The author wishes to persuade the reader that many adolescents are analyzable and, contrary to opinion expressed in much of the psychoanalytic literature, can benefit greatly from this form of treatment. The paper consists largely of the description, with details from many sessions, of the three-and-a-half-year analysis of a

highly motivated adolescent boy, fourteen years old at the outset. Both the patient and the author are extremely articulate. In addition to being a most convincing example of successful analytic work with an adolescent using standard technique, this is one of those rare papers that illustrate vividly what actually occurs between analyst and patient in the course of their shared work.