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In an article entitled "The Writing of Clinical Papers: The Analyst As Illusionist", Fred Plaut looks at two angles of clinical writing: one has to do with how such articles originate out of analytic experience and the other is concerned with the foreclosure of an analyst's intuition, feeling, and preconscious experience imposed by enforcement of certain professional publishing requirements. Plaut emphasizes that the move from live spoken experience to written text, even in the form of note-taking, involves transforming primary process into secondary process and the risk of congealing what may be ephemeral. Clinical reporting standards induce the writer to convert the analyst's experience of this realm into conscious secondary and directed thought while maintaining descriptions of the patient's preconscious as the clinical focus. [Extracted from the article]