In this 1 hour lecture, Dr McWilliams presents the case of "Sarah", a patient who died of a sudden illness during therapy. "The more I got to know Sarah, the more I admired her courage and appreciated the internal suffering that she had kept entirely private for all of her 55 years. It was painful to lose her before I could know her better. Most centrally, however, I believe that the story of her therapy illustrates a theme about which I have been speaking and writing for many years — namely, that what is most valuable about psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic approach to treatment is not a particular technique or process but a set of values and a body of knowledge that can inform and give shape to any kind of therapeutic effort... The solution that she and I crafted for her complex dilemma expressed the idiosyncratic interplay of our respective personalities and is a good example of a treatment that I consider quintessentially psychoanalytic despite being highly unconventional."