PRECISION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
N. S. LEHRMAN M.D.1
1 Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N. Y.
Scientific precision has far too often been consciously excluded from classical psychoanalysis, because Freud rejected it. In consequence, classical psychoanalysis has assumed many of the trappings of a religion, and lost many of the essential characteristics of a science. Two anti-scientific trends in the field, defensive secrecy and arrogant "elitism," seem to have occurred in part as a result of perpetuation of this lack of precision.
