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After slowly emerging from the ruins of dictatorship and world war, German psychoanalysis has developed into one of the largest psychoanalytic groupings, with an impressive number of institutes. It enjoys considerable support by universities and society, the latter especially in form of the broad financing of psychoanalytic treatment by the social insurance which covers almost the entire population. But it is not only a matter of quantity. A number of authors have dedicated themselves to a critical thinking-through of psychoanalytic theory and practice. In my opinion these reviews have assumed a depth and importance from which the psychoanalytic community at large can and should not close itself off. Under these reassessments the criticalempirical and epistemological works of Helmuth Thomä and Horst Kächele, the clinical reappraisals and philosophical contemplations of Wolfgang Loch, the editorial and encyclopedic work of F.-W. Eickhoff, and the many-sided, historically and culturally deeply founded essays of Johannes Cremerius may assume leading positions.
These volumes comprise the main studies of the latter—professor for psychotherapy and psychosomatics at the University of Freiburg—which deal critically with issues of psychoanalytic technique, treating topics such as silence of patient and analyst; "inability to associate"; "talking too much"; treatment technique with severe superego