The authors present follow-up research on the influential 1988 study, “Psychoanalytic Practice in the Federal Republic of Germany.” In the context of present controversies, the data prove the discrepancy, lately suppressed, between the legal fiction and the actual reality of psychoanalytic practice within the guidelines of the insurance system (“Richtlinien-Psychotherapie”). No support was found for the contention of a new “standard procedure” (twice a week for 300 sessions) within the German Psychoanalytical Association. The data, on the contrary, suggest a different structure of psychoanalytic practice: concentration on low frequency psychotherapy (one session) and high frequency) long-term psychoanalysis (four sessions), often far beyond the arbitrary limit of 300 sessions. Stress is laid on the urgent need to develop research strategies which view the problem of frequency systematically and in a qualitative way.