Dear Sir:

In their letter, Sidney and Esther Fine refer to my citation of the research study they presented to the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society in 1988 in which they essayed to demonstrate a relatedness of theoretical perspective to technique, i.e. of theory-differences to discerned differences in clinical practice. Their results were largely positive, documenting that by and large adherents of four differing psychoanalytic theoretical perspectives could in most instances be identified through characteristic and expectably phrased interventions, all offered in response to the same clinical protocol of one patient's verbalizations during a single analytic hour.

I noted these findings but then indicated that