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(1976). American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 36:325-329

The Psychoanalyst: An Agent of the Social Milieu

Arnold L. Gilberg, M.D.

The advent of psychoanalysis as a theory of personality, as a research tool, and as therapy began near the close of the nineteenth century, with Freud. The historical evidence for the continuing growth of psychoanalysis has been based on early contributions and on the work of other leaders within the field of psychoanalysis who endeavored to delineate and evaluate personality and psychopathology.

For all too long, many psychoanalysts have lost sight of the thrust of the psychoanalytic movement pioneered by Freud and other eminent scholars. In no way did Freud intend to make psychoanalysis a rigid, codified science, which left little art. The very essence of Freudian psychoanalysis has always been and will always remain, an understanding of the unconscious and the interpretation of resistance and transference.1 Frequently, however, psychoanalysts have forgotten that in order to make these interpretations there must be a recognition of the impingement of the current cultural and societ

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