Hartmann emphasized in 1960 that the analyst in his therapeutic work will keep other values in abeyance and concentrate on the realization of only one category of values: health values. Many analysts, however, question whether the analyst can keep his own values entirely out of analysis as Hartmann and others contend. For instance, Karl Menninger emphasizes that the psychoanalyst believes, lives for, loves, considers good and evil, becomes known to the patient and influences him enormously. In any event, it is important that psychoanalysis realize that the problem of values is as valid an area of scientific research as other areas of the personality, and that psychoanalysts are best equipped to investigate it. Such would be an important step toward rescuing value studies from the age-old speculative approaches and would establish the study of values as an empirical discipline.