The effectiveness of analytic Interpretation is conditioned by a number of factors within the patient. within the analyst, and within the analytic situation. I will focus on one of these factors, part of the technical activity of the analyst that I will call follow-up interpretation, one which omitted, or even slighted, sharply diminishes the effectiveness of interpretation.
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