It is suggested that modified analysis, as proposed by Winnicott, is an analysis based on care. The task of modified analysis is understood by means of Winnicott's concept of the use of an object. For an object to be used it has to be put outside the subjective domain, gaining thus an alterity. In modified analysis, the patient will learn to "use the analyst", which implies that the analyst will be able to exist outside the patient's subjective area, therefore representing an alterity. By providing a good enough environment and allowing the correction of certain environmental faults and the expression of the patient's creativity, modified analysis makes possible the constitution of the analyst as an objective object and the recognition, by the patient, of the analyst's alterity. From then on, the patient will be able to use the analyst and the analyst's interpretations.
alterity; modified analysis; use of an object