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To the Editor:
In “Petruchio's Taming of Kate—A Horneyan Perspective,” Bernard Paris (1994) provides a spirited response to my article “The Psychology of the Shrew and Shrew Taming” (Sealy, 1994). While finding my analysis of the characters of Kate and Bianca “not incompatible” with a Horneyan perspective, Paris disputes other aspects of the analysis, contending that the taming is not at all comparable to psychotherapy and denying that Kate grows in any therapeutic sense. I wish to comment on these assertions and to point out an underlying theme of Paris's commentary.
(1) While suggesting that the principles underlying Petruchio's methods could be usefully compared to those found in psychotherapy, I noted both the exaggerated nature of Petruchio's methods (p. 334) and the limitations of the comparison (p. 336). However, while I also agree with several of Paris's more specific comments, I do believe that his approach is incomplete in that he fails to do justice to the