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PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS IS A COMPOSITE OR CONGLOMERATE concept. It refers to the complex of psychic interactions between analyst and analysand which characterize and are essential to the establishment and maintenance of the psychoanalytic situation and endeavor, with the mutual aim of effecting a change in the psychic organization of the analysand. A change may occur in the psychic organization of the analyst as well since the psyche of the analyst is an essential instrument in the process. The close look into another human being's life-style and relationships, the self-observation and analysis of responses to the analysand's transferences, the analysis of one's own countertransferences, the analyst's reactions to being the target of love and hate—all these work changes in the psyche of the analyst. The fact that we use the term process indicates that we have in mind an endeavor which has a continued directional movement or shows continuous change in time. An examination of the question must consider what the elements are which bring this process into existence and make possible its maintenance over a period of time. when we speak of the