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The author reviews several of the elements of the reported treatment, starting with the difficult beginning of both participants with their mothers. In attempting to respond to the question, “is this analysis?”, he places the described account in the realm of pleasurable play between mother and child, with significant and forceful interpretations to promote completion of mourning. This qualifies as psychoanalysis under special circumstances.