Dear Editor,

I do appreciate the thoughtful response by Dr. Josephs to my recent article, “Will psychoanalysis fulfil its promise?” He feels that I aptly characterized the conceptual psychological world of the 1970s as comprising psychoanalysis and two competitive theoretical and therapeutic perspectives, the “learning-theory and stimulus-response model”, and what I called “the third force, the existential-phenomenological tradition”, each the three structures offering distinctly differentiated treatment modalities for mental and emotional