Experiences in the field of psychotherapeutic student counseling have led the author to question psychoanalytic competency in this field. In dealing with the psychosocial problems (experiences of alienation, work disturbances, interpersonal difficulties), to which students react with denial, apathy, or protest, the analyst feels the need to try out appropriate methods of therapy (self-analytic groups; workshops; noninterpretive therapeutic interventions as described by Main; Balint-groups, etc.) and, beyond these, to acquire a quasi-political action competency which is partially incompatible with analysis.