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Bak, R.C. (1970). Psychoanalysis Today. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 18:3-23.

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(1970). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 18:3-23

Psychoanalysis Today

Robert C. Bak, M.D. Author Information

IT IS A GREAT HONOR and privilege to have been given the opportunity to address you, especially since I have never held office in the Association. In a recent Sunday address, my esteemed friend, Charles Brenner, then President, remarked that one of the perquisites of this high office consists of the opportunity to talk to you on matters that are not strictly scientific (1968).

The broad title I gave my lecture implies a far greater scope than that which I shall talk about. The appropriate title would have been: "Some Tentative Suggestions for Remedying the Scarcity of New Data in Psychoanalysis." These matters are not scientific, but perhaps they are vital to the future of analysis. I shall present to you only my personal views and opinions, strongly held and derived from thirty-five years of experience spent in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic education. I shall endeavor to present these views to you simply, straightforwardly, and as unpretentiously as my pers

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