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In this discussion of the paper by Grossman, Saravay stresses that psychoanalysts have much to learn as well as to contribute by working in the setting of a general hospital. He discusses concepts of transference, transference neurosis, and cure by resolution of the latter, as compared to transference and cure brought about by a positive and continuing identification with the analyst. He compares transference and transference cure in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, group therapy, and crisis intervention in the general hospital setting. Transference cure is facilitated in the hospital because the patient is in a state of transference readiness with infantile conflicts already mobilized. Citing clinical examples, the author demonstrates how a positive transference is fostered and a transference cure is effected in a brief crisis intervention.