This paper is about “analytic” treatment, which is not limited to psychoanalysis. What constitutes “analytic” is described. Psychoanalysis, as differentiated from psychoanalytic psychotherapy, has been discussed at great length in an abundant literature. In this presentation, the border of interest being focussed upon is not centrally between those two approaches but the interface between analytic and supportive psychotherapies. Supportive therapy aims to restore the functioning of the patient's ego to its premorbid state before its decompensation and the development of symptoms, while analytic therapy, from analytic psychotherapy to psychoanalysis, has as its goal an improvement of ego functioning to a higher level than prior to the onset of symptoms. An acquisition of an analytic skill, or at least an acquaintanceship that leads to an interest in this, can occur to a slight degree with minimal analytic sessions or exposure, to a considerable degree with long-standing and consistent analytic psychotherapy, and to a maximum degree of which the patient is capable, with that analyst, in a psychoanalysis.