The author collected data on 15 patients for whom therapy was
interrupted because of a move to a distant city by the analyst or the
patient. He found that 14 of these patients refused to accept transfer to
another analyst as urged by their analyst; instead, they continued contact
by phone and/or correspondence with the analyst for long periods of time.
Continuation of contact was not related to diagnosis but perhaps to a basic
inability of these patients to face and work through separation or to some
type of special patient-therapist relationship.Abstract Teaser