Howard (Eisman PhD)--

Thanks for refreshing my recollections and for your other remarks about
therapy research in general, which suddenly sound much more balanced and
consistent with our prior correspondence.

It sounds like you're using a very narrow definition of "psychoanalysis"
which sounds like circa 1920-50 something.  I have a PhD friend who's an
Institute graduate who's published many research articles by now, statistical
in nature, on aspects of Objects Relations Theory.  Would that not constitute
"psychoanalysis?"  Not to mention, to my knowledge, analysts do not directly
interpret the unconscious anymore, because we learned long ago that it simply
circumvents a person's defenses and makes them clam up, rather than open up
(Freud "kept" some of his patients crazy by not recognizing this).  So I'm
not sure what you mean by "psychoanalysis."

(By the way, I'm well, doing singing/songwriting half-time now, along with my
half-time therapy practice).

Happy New Year and best wishes--

David (MIttelman, PhD)