ABSTRACT
It has been said that the motivation to become a psychoanalyst is derived from the individual's desire to solve his/her own personal problems. Two major emotional issues lingered from childhood into adulthood: feelings of maternal coldness and emotional distance, and feelings of domination and control. Betty Feldman's suggestion forced the author to be torn between wanting to self-actualize his capacity to be an analyst and entering into a masochistic relationship with the Demon Dean. The Counseling Center at the University of Chicago, founded by Carl Rogers, focused on a clinical approach of accurate empathic understanding, responsiveness, clinical flexibility, and unconditional positive regard. In the 1960s, many clinical psychologists felt like second-class citizens in contrast to the elevated and superior status automatically given to psychiatrists. Social workers, in that era, had status because they were viewed positively as being a psychiatrist's right hand. Psychologists, however, were greeted with criticism and hostility by many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts.
