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Dear Sirs,
I was very interested in Jane Milton's paper, ‘Psychoanalysis and cognitive behaviour therapy—rival paradigms or common ground’ ( Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 82: 431-447) in which she suggests that analytic and cognitive approaches to psychotherapy are critically distinguished by the social context on which analysis depends. Milton refers to this social context by the term ‘analytic stance’, which includes the apparently asocial aspects of the interaction between analyst and patient. She goes on to suggest that loss of the