Pregnancy during analysis--help or hindrance?

This paper challenge the technical precept that during pregnancy a woman is less accessible to analytic treatment. The precept, which originated more than fifty years ago, has remained with us despite significant changes in our knowledge about pregnancy; despite fundamental changes in analytic theory with attendant changes in technique; and despite a large body of clinical evidence to which this paper contributes further information from four analytic cases. All of these developments support the view that pregnancy is not a contraindication for analysis but, on the contrary, can facilitate analytic progress.