Strecker acknowledges the merits of psychoanalysis and criticizes what he considers its weaknesses. According to him its merits are: the discovery of the impact of sexual conflicts upon human pathology, and the development of ways to help the neurotic patient to express himself. Its weaknesses are: too quick generalization, a tendency toward dogmatism and an adherence to not well-enough proven theories.

Strecker states, and rightly so, that it is not permissible to refuse scientific criticism by stating that the critic is influenced by his 'resistance'. However, he himself concludes that what he calls the 'dogmatism' of psychoanalysts is a result of their 'emotional dependency'.