Schülein urges us to stop ignoring the "psychoboom," the rise of a seemingly endless number of competing therapies and therapeutic sects. Psychoanalysis should take this new opportunity to review its own theory and practice so as to utilize better its potential for meaningful interventions. Three main phenomena can be distinguished on the "psychoscene": first, behavior therapies, aimed at

specific defects, serving a technical-restorative function and promising a greater "success" rate; second, schools of therapy which support personal identity in the tradition of Coué (Rogers, Perls, Synanon); and finally, the ritualistic production of intensified affect states within encounter groups.