This study describes how psychoanalysts -in the third position- repeatedly change the tenor of the description of patients' responses to interpretations. They implicitly increase its emotional valency, or disclose layers of the patients' experience other than those mentioned. These actions may be inspired by working comprehension of the minds and mental conflicts of individual patients, alongside the more general therapeutic model of the mind they cling to. Although the patients usually do not fully endorse these modifications, the data available suggest that during the sessions that follow, the participants do work with the aspects of patients' experience that the analyst highlighted. In discussion, it is suggested that actions that the psychoanalysts produce in therapy, such as choices of turn design in third position, These actions may be informed by working understanding of the minds and mental conflicts of individual patients, alongside the more general therapeutic model of the mind they hold to.