title: Psychoanalytic technique and the creation of analysands: on beginning analysis with patients who are reluctant to pay the analyst's fee.
abstract: This paper discusses prospective analysands who are able but reluctant to pay analysts' fees. The author presents analytic data in which analysts decided to gratify their reluctant analysands by reducing their fees in order to facilitate the subsequent analysis of their reluctance. These examples are employed to discuss the general question of fee reduction.
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authors.lastname: Rothstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000191:economics*