The war created a special background for psychoanalytic therapy, the interdiscourse which fills the analytic sessions. This interdiscourse relates to the therapeutic encounter in a variety of ways sides, resulting in a number of distinct therapeutic phenomena and features of the therapeutic relationship. This contribution highlights several of these phenomena, including (a) the inversion of relations, establishing a new system of power dynamics and positions of self-disclosure, (b) overloading of sessions with feelings of guilt, (c) new dimensions of mental regression, and (d) the exhaustion of the analysand's ego. This article describes and illustrates these phenomena.