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To the Editor: Mark Twain is said to have cabled home from abroad, "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." The same could be said of psychoanalysis. In his review of Edward Shorter's book, A History of Psychiatry (July 3 issue),¹ Dr. Pope amplifies some of Shorter's inaccuracies.

Psychoanalysis is not simply a phenomenon of one time and place. Throughout the world, more patients are now being treated with psychoanalysis than at any time in the century of its existence. Most modern psychotherapies, especially insight-oriented psychotherapies, are based on psychoanalytic ideas about unconscious emotional conflict.² In science, reasoned challenges are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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