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Dear Sirs,
Lear (2003) provides a depressing account of the failure of British philosophy to be influenced in any way ‘whatsoever’ by psychoanalysis, albeit with a glimmer of hope for the future based on the ideas of Williams (2002).
Lear fails to mention, however, that there has been a degree of two-way traffic between the two disciplines. Holmes and Lindley (1998) put forward a Millian justification for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Lindley, a philosopher and former student of Williams,