 What is the purpose of a comanalysis?
[p 135 ] By CHARLES V. DE VET monkey on his back Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of another man— was it himself? The corridor opened at last into a large high-domed room, much like a railway station or an air terminal. The floor beneath Zarwell’s feet assumed abruptly the near transfluent consistency of a damp sponge. “When psychiatry was a less exact science,” his voice went on, seeming to come from a great distance, “a doctor had to spend weeks, sometimes months or years interviewing a patient. The floor continued its transmutation, and Zarwell sank deep into viscous depths. The evening meal hour was approaching when he reached the Flats, on the way to his apartment. All St. Martin’s has a distinctive smell, as of an arid dried-out swamp, with a faint taint of fish. The feeling was there again, like a scene waiting only to be gazed at directly to be perceived. Yet always, when his mind lost its sleep-induced [p 140 ] lethargy, the moment of near understanding slipped away. This morning, however, the sense of disorientation did not pass with full wakefulness. He moved in and joined a party of short, bearded men, directing them as they battered at the wall with a huge log mounted on a many-wheeled truck. The log broke a breach in the concrete and the besiegers charged through, carrying back the defenders who sought vainly to plug the gap.
 It gives more direct access to the plagues of the human mind
 It paralyzes patients in order to restore their nervous systems to equilibrium  It gives more direct access to the plagues of the human mind  It allows a manipulator to implant false memories  It permits a psychoanalyst to remove traumatic memories