Predicting the Realtionship to the Psychotherapist from Early Recollections.

I expect from the patient again and again the same attitude which he has sho·wn in accordance with his life-plan toward the persons of his former environment, and still earlier toward his family. At the moment of the introduction to the physician and often even earlier, the patient has the same feelings toward him as toward important persons in general. The assumption that the transference of such feelings or that resistance begins later is a mere deception. In such cases the physician only recognizes them later (I, pp. 336-337).