According to the "contiguity" rule of psychoanalysis· (Freud, 1905, 1901, 39), the proximity of "paper on technique" to "large plaster cast of Michelangelo's Moses" suggests strongly that there is indeed a causal connection. Freud's first mention of the therapeutic significance of transference is in his 1905 Postscript to Fragment о fan analysis of a Case of Hysteria: ...it is only after the transference has been resolved that a patient arrives at a sense of conviction of the validity of the connections which have been constructed during the analysis. ...Transference, which seems ordained to be the greatest obstacle to psycho-analysis, becomes its most powerful ally, if the presence can be detected each time and explained to the patient. Forover four decades, until retirement, he was in private practice in Elizabethtown, KY., where he also held the position of chief psychologist of a regional mental health center for five years (1968-1973).