Psychoanalytic therapy is a method of investigation as welll as a form of treatment. The patient is told to report as completely and honestly as possible, whatever thoughts, imaged or feelings that come into his mind. The analyst listens in an uncritical, non-judgemental fashion, and evaluated in the context of the patient's story. Under such conditions, materials and ideas that were formerly repressed would be verbalized, examined and understoof. This therapy is uncomplicated by the intrusion of the go, id and superego, and therefore would be accurate.

A crucial part of the treatment is the interpretation of the patient's reactions to the therapist. Usually, the patient's perception of the analyst and the demand he makes of him often become inappropriate and unrealistic. This represents an unconscious reenactment on the part of the patient, and the patient has transferred to the analyst derivatives of the unconscious wishes or fantasies of childhood. This is called transference. Transference in understood as a form of memory in which reptition in action replaced recollection of the past and in which the present reality is misperceived and misinterpreted. In this respect, it is a reproduction in miniature of the neurotic process.