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In this essay the term "psychoanalysis" will be used to designate that method for the study of the human mind which is based on the principles and techniques originated and elaborated by Sigmund Freud. It will embrace contributions made by students of Freud since his earliest revolutionary discoveries. Contributions which have deepened insight and expanded understanding have also been added to the definition of the word. Studies which have done violence to the basic principles of psychoanalysis are not covered by this definition. It has often been a source of wonderment that people who disown or discard or attack with virulence the basic principles of Freudian psychoanalysis persist in the use of the word "psychoanalysis" for their types of therapy. Such a term should be anathema for them.
Under the term psychoanalysis employed in this text, the Freudian analytic procedure is conducted so that therapeutic results are ideally a byproduct of the search for knowledge and self-understanding. This is true even though the patient comes seeking a cure through analysis. It so happens, that the greatest therapeutic benefit will be realized the closer this goal of