Valueless Psychoanalysis—Redux

A Response to a Passionate Objection (Vol. 1, Issue 38)

Increasingly frustrated by psychoanalysts endlessly arguing with one another, I explored the ongoing quest for defining psychoanalysis in last week’s issue. I suggested psychoanalysis be considered applied philosophy. Standing on Stolorow’s (2013) shoulders, I argued, we psychoanalysts practice what the ancient philosophers did—a methodology for genuine…