ABSTRACT
Before listing some of the general characteristics of stereotyped approaches, I must emphasize once again that I see Freudian therapy as a spectrum of processes. When I characterize the stereotyped approaches I am attempting to characterize one broad segment of the spectrum. No given treatment process or case report can demonstrate all of the characteristics to be mentioned, just as no given treatment process or case report can reveal all of the characteristics of the heuristic approaches to be discussed later. It should be mentioned that a given treatment process may reveal characteristics of different parts of the spectrum of processes. To state my point somewhat differently: I am fully aware that the “purely stereotyped” analyst no more exists than does the “purely heuristic” analyst. The basic purpose of the following list of characteristics is to facilitate discussion, merely part of an effort to understand and specify the different approaches subsumed under the name of Freudian.
