8. During the whole of the first tw

8. During the whole of the first two years, I had great difficulty in being able to determine, from his reactions, what validity to assign to my interpretations. I did, on two widely separated occasions, hear, from an extra-analytic source, that the patient was said to be greatlyimproved. I, myself, saw no improvement; nor was I able to remark, what I now believe to be true, that a change began to manifest itself in him at the end of this period. Till that time his intonation had been uniformly drained of emotion and his statements correspondinglydifficult to interpret, for they almost always had the ambiguous character which admitted of differentmeanings if one considered themnow with one emotional content, now with another.