Rockland reviews the literature on psychoanalytically informed supportive therapy and lists techniques culled therefrom. These include building rapport, reassuring, "accepting abreaction without analyzing it," intervening in the patient's environment, speaking for reality, clarifying for the patient, confronting maladaptive behavior, educating, advising, encouraging, prohibiting, and using somatic treatment "liberally without analyzing unconscious meanings." He more fully describes supportive techniques that "absolutely require psychodynamic sophistication and skill." These include strengthening adaptive defenses; undermining maladaptive defenses; supplying partial and inexact interpretations to aid repression by distracting the patient from the true source of anxiety; undermining overly intense or negative transferences by confrontation with reality and/or facilitating displacement; tailoring interventions to fit the patient's character traits; and discouraging free association in favor of logical thinking.