Psychoanalysts Do More Harm to the Cause of Psychoanalysis Than to Individual Patients

Freud: "Wild analysts of this kind do more harm to the cause of psychoanalysis than to individual patients" He says that a clumsy procedure like this, even if at first it produced an exasperation of the patient's condition, led toa very in the end. The final improvement then comes about of itself, or is ascribed tosome totally indifferent treatment by some other doctor to whom the patient has later turned. In spite of all her opposition, this intervention of this intervention of his, cannot be without some favorable results. But he has done himself harm and helped to intensify the prejudices which patients feel owing to their natural, effective resistances against the methods of analysis. And this can