Crisis In Psychoanalysis

October, 1969

Crisis in PsychoanalysisWord has reached nearly everyone who knows anything and quite a few who know very little: Psychoanalysis is passé, dying, outmoded. Out.And, hence, not to be mentioned publicly except in scornful, knowing tones. Cocktail-party pundits and stay-at-home intellectuals, the literary avant-garde and book-shunning social militants, New Left activists, pseudomasculine feminists and law-and-order conservatives all suddenly find it in fashion to sneer at psychoanalysis and to asse...