ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud's own work in its totality has so decisively influenced the psychological climate of our time that nobody coming after him could—if he would—ignore him. This is certainly true for psychotherapy as soon as it is analytic in orientation, whether this psychotherapy takes place in the individual situation or in the multipersonal or group situation. The many deviant schools outside psycho-analysis set us no new problems, especially as they are often honest enough not to claim any more to be forms of psycho-analysis. Psycho-analysis as a method of treatment may in time loses its importance and in its pure form become restricted in application to very special circumstances. Psycho-analysis may lead to the radical cure of symptoms and modify neurotic developments, but its greater contribution is the exploration of the development and functioning of the human mind in its normal as well as abnormal aspects.
