In this paper some theoretical and clinical issues are explored, about possible conscious choices and unconscious trends of the analyst regarding “solutions by crisis” and “solutions by lysis” in the psychoanalytic treatment.

While the “crisis-like” solution is frequently represented in classical psychoanalytic literature through an active interpretative attitude by the analyst, the “lysis-like” option is usually preferred by those analysts who take special care of the relationship between the Ego and the Self of the patient, waiting for a more suitable shared ground for their intervention when it could sound premature.

A short clinical story is reported, in order to show the complexity of these issues and a possible analytic technique in special difficult pathologies.