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This paper relates the increased interest in research in psychoanalysis in recent years to two trends: 1, the widening recognition of the implications of psychoanalytic understanding for all aspects of human behavior, and its applicability to social action; 2, the organic growth of psychoanalytic theory: ego psychology is one such growth and seems partly to determine the direction of future research.
The problem of research is not simply to develop a plausible and consistent conceptualization of psychological events that have already happened, but rather to determine correctness of theory and to attain predictability of result.
Validation of theory is necessary in the effort to integrate psychoanalysis with the general body of scientific thought. The three criteria for validity in