[Brief analytic psychotherapy and psychological change]

Of the basic principles of the brief analytic psychotherapy taught at the PPU of Lausanne, the comparison of different psychotherapy technics seems to show clearly the influence of the setting on the therapeutic process. Placed strictly on the freudian hypothesis that transference is at the same time factor of resistances and of changement, the author shows that it is possible to respect the psychoanalytic principles edicted by Freud in psychotherapy as well as in psychoanalysis: free associations, neutrality, lack of focalisation, interpretation, if the changes in psychic functioning provoked by the psychotherapeutic context are understood. An example illustrates this hypothesis.