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(1914). Psychoanalytic Review, 1:439-444

Technique of Psychoanalysis

Smith Ely Jelliffe

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There is no royal road in psychoanalysis, for every analysis is after all a highly individualized problem. At the same time there are general principles, else a technique could not be evolved. In actual practice a number of different approaches may be utilized, and just as in the royal game of chess there are recognized openings, mid game and end problems, so in psychoanalysis one's method of application of fairly well understood and accredited principles must be carefully chosen with special reference to the character of the case in hand.

Among those of considerable experience it is not infrequent to find marked diversity of opinion regarding the chief factors and the most useful methods to be employed in analysis. The beginner is often overwhelmed with “ex cathedra” statements “never do this,” and “always do that”; Freud says this and Jung says something else; Adler advises so and so, Fer

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