Introduction

Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient’s capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure.

Freud’s Technique

When Freud is writing about technique in psychoanalysis - and these papers [in Wild Analysis] represent his most significant contributions to the subject over three decades of work - it is important to remember that he is talking about what a couple, an analyst and a so-called patient, can do in a room together. For better or worse.

— Adam Phillips