
This book provides a number of accounts where analysands and patients describe their experiences, with both eminent and less well-known analysts and therapists. It presents the published stories of several analysands over 100 years for purposes of comparison.

Most accounts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been written by therapists, from a professional point of view. May such accounts alone be an authentic history of what occurred between the therapist and the patient? Would the patients' accounts be as valid as those of the...