DISCUSSION: Dr. Theodore Shapiro noted that although every sensitive psychoanalyst pays attention to the social components in a patient's life, the nature of the psychoanalytic process is such that the individual remains the object of study. He emphasized our obligation to deal exclusively with the data provided through the application of the psychoanalytic method, if our science is to have credibility. Dr. Richard Sennet also stressed the difference in the data obtained and the interpretations made by sociologists and by psychoanalysts.