So You Want to Be Psychoanalyzed

Abstract

Almost every physician, regardless of his type of practice, has been asked hy a patient, "What is it like to be psychoanalyzed?" Now, at last, the physician can answer his patient's, as well as his own, curiosity with a book that provides unusual insight coupled with readable humor and wit. To offer such a book to one's patients provides as complete and close an excursion through analysis as is possible. The book is divided into three sections, each corresponding to a particular stage of psychoanalysis. The first part, called "I love you, I love you, I love you," describes positive transference where the patient develops a love relationship toward the analyst, a feeling that eventually makes it possible to really love someone else in an enduring, intimate fashion. The second part is called "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you." At this stage negative transference takes over because