The problem of values has become a central problem today. Loss of values has been called the “ultimate disease of our time.” In psychoanalytic therapy the problem of values has gained in significance to the extent to which the role of the therapist has been changing from that of a mirror to that of a participant-observer, and finally to that of a partner in the analytic relationship.

In the sterilized climate of orthodox psychoanalysis, the “vitamins” of values were eliminated, together with other vital factors, such as the healthy, constructive, non-transference aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. The emphasis on a “scientific” method which should be free from values represents in itself a value judgment. Modern science has learned to include the consideration of