Jane, I don't know is your brief comment is directed to me. But in case it is, I should like to reply that "psychoanalysis" is not a single theoretical entity nor a sinlge method of therapy. There are so many theories and techniques today that go by the name "psychoanalysis" that it would be quite a large volume just summarizing there key features of them all. I have studied many but by no means all of them. Several flatly contradict one another so it would be impossible for anyone to agree with all of that which goes by name "psychoanalysis" without being incoherent in articulating one's beliefs. I find these many theories and techinques lacking in important ways, but some of them have what I consider important ideas here and there that may or may not be correct but which are useful ideas nonetheless, in my opinion. And it is, I repeat, only my opinion that these ideas are useful; their usefulness is not something I can claim is fact. Therefore I cannot say my opinion is correct. So, the most succinct thing I can say is that I do not consider "psychoanalyis" to be correct as you summarily put it. I don't know how that conclusion could be "clear" to anyone reading my postings above. So perhaps you are not referring to me after all. If not, I hope you won't mind a little instruction on something that is a fact: i.e., psychoanalysis is not a single conceptual entity nor a single method of practicing therapy.
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