an analysis increased from months to years over the 20th century, so too the success of the Rat Man's case has perhaps come to resemble rather the symptomatic relief of brief psychotherapy or focal psychotherapy, more than the achievement of a full psychoanalysis. References Further reading Mark Kanzer/Jules Glenn, Freud and His Patients (1980) External links A Short Account of Obsessional Neurosis in Freud and Lacan Pt II Jacques Lacan's interpretation of the Rat Man case in his paper 'The Neurotic's Individual Myth' - article on LacanOnline.com Video explaining Jacques Lacan's analysis of the Rat Man case 1878 births 1914 deaths Case studies by Sigmund Freud Analysands of Sigmund Freud Lanzer