Johannes Cremerius Knihy

The authors of this book provide a thoroughgoing investigation into the nature of the crisis in psychoanalysis and propose ways to resolve it. They view the prognosis for psychoanalysis as a profession as not particularly brilliant and call for major changes in the rules of the psychoanalytic institutes in order to give their members greater freedom to form fresh ideas and discuss new adaptations of therapeutic methods to meet the changing expectations of the modern world. However, their prognosis for psychoanalysis as a human science is more favourable, although they maintain that it will need a great amount of determination and radical reforms for psychoanalysis to act 'as an important stimulant in cultural and social developments' (Freud, 1924). What these reforms should look like is one of the main themes discussed in this volume.