Fromm-Reichmann compares psychoanalytic with 'dynamic' therapy with reference to concepts of childhood development, the unconscious, transference and resistance, and the problems of anxiety. 'Dynamic' psychiatry describes development in terms of developmental phases of 'interpersonal relations', not in terms of psychosexual development. This leads to differences in interpretations in the transference. Repression as generally understood in psychoanalysis is not accepted, nor is the existence of an innate unconscious or preconscious. According to Fromm-Reichmann, focus in both psychoanalysis and 'dynamic' psychiatry has shifted from the content of the repressed to the anxiety aroused by unearthing the repressed. She presents a hypothesis concerning anxiety and emphasizes the importance of better understanding this problem.