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Let me not keep you in suspense. Psychoanalysis has a future. Before tackling the nature of this future, let me digress to the present, and even to a bit of trivia of etymology. A letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association (Akeret 1968) has possibly, for once and for all, cleared up the minor puzzle of how the word shrink came to be applied to psychoanalyst and psychiatrist as well.
It may be a comfort to know that a poet, rather than a headhunter, is the source. It was the late Christopher Morley who wrote:
The old mandarin was always pleasedWhen in his philosophical readingHe encountered the names of Deep Thinkers.What an excellent name for a psychoanalystis Schrenk-NotzingFor trulyThey shrink from nothing.Thus, I cannot shrink from my assigned task of acting as if I were a Prophet.