title: Comments on the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.
abstract: Together with some of the problems inherent in psychoanalysis as a therapy, I have described what the various schools of psychoanalysis hold in common--the basic assumptions, if you will, underlying any properly conducted psychoanalysis.
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology