In the author's view, the analytic process of understanding is not only a way of finding out things; it is also a process that has an integral bearing on the helping relationship. With this contention, Daser relativizes the opposition frequently posited in the analytic literature between exploratory and supportive interventions. The author describes a special form of interpretation—“interpretation from countertransference”—to demonstrate an approach especially suitable for crisis interventions. As the patient's conflict is enacted from the outset in the therapeutic relationship, interpretation from countertransference penetrates to the interactional conflict dynamic, proceeding from the surface to deeper levels and leading directly to an improvement in symptomatology. The author draws on two case vignettes to illustrate his approach.