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Early [[psychoanalysis]] emphasized the [[activity|active]] role of the [[psychoanalyst]], who intervened, interpreted, "analyzed," and the [[patient]] was, at least in [[theory]], the person on whom some form of [[therapy|therapeutic]] [[activity]] was [[practice]]d.  The [[patient]] was the term "[[analysand]]" of a [[psychoanalyst]], who possessed the necessary [[theoretical]psychoanalysand] [[knowledge]] from having first "undergone" the initiatory experience of ([[psychoanalysisFr]] himself. The term '[[analysand]]' refers to the [[patient]] in [[analysis]]. As [[psychoanalysis]] developed and spread, and as increasing emphasis was placed on the [[transferencepsychanalysant]] and [[counter-transference]] in the dynamics of [[therapy]], the [[patient]] turned out to be at least as, and sometimes more, active than the [[analyst]]. Before 1967, [[Lacan]] refers to the one who is 'in' ) -- or "[[psychoanalyticanalysand]] " ([[treatmentFr]] as the '[[patient]]' or the '[[subject]]'. In 1967 [[Lacan]] introduces the term ''psychanalysant'', based on the [[Englishanalysant]] term '[[psychoanalysand]]'.<ref>Lacan, 1967: 18</ref> [[Lacan]] prefers this term because, being derived from the gerund, it indicates that the one who lies on the couch is the one who does most of the work.  active participation in the analytic process In [[Lacan]]'s view, the [[analysand]] is not 'analysed' by the [[analyst]]; it is the [[analysand]] who analyses, and the task of the [[analyst]] is to help him to analyse well. == See also ==* [[treatment]] == References ==<references/> [[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Practice]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Psychoanalysis]]) --