Gabbard (2005) - “Indeed, the approach to psychoanalytic treatment has changed dramatically since the time of Freud. It is ironic that many of the attacks on psychoanalysis have critiqued a model of psychoanalysis that resembles 1890’s Freud

“rather than the current Zeitgeist of psychoanalytic practice. Would one critique modern aviation by focusing on the Wright brothers?”

“The notion that we are consciously confused and unconsciously controlled will always be threatening. The intensity with which psychoanalysis is repeatedly challenged reflects this underlying anxiety…Psychoanalysis remains the most comprehensive model of the human mind.”