As part of a Swedish postgraduate training programme in psychotherapy, a qualitative approach based on psychodynamic criteria was used to evaluate the results of psychoanalytically-oriented individual psychotherapy. The study extended over six years and involved ten patients who had undergone two years of individual therapy. Based primarily on patient interviews prior to therapy and follow-up interviews some two to four years after the therapy had ended, the success of the therapy was rated by trainees in the programme and by the patients themselves. The Malan / Tavistock outcome scale for dynamic change was followed.