Fred Weinstein, in his comments on the work of the Stearns, objects to their identifying psychohistory or psychosocial studies with Freudian psychoanalysis. He feels that the interpretative statements made by historians and social scientists about what people have done are inferential leaps not warranted by the evidence and are based on some implicit or explicit notion of unconscious mental activity and repression. He concurs with Robert Wallerstein that larger interpretative psychoanalytic points of view become ideology, and that psychoanalysts should confine themselves to clinical matters and avoid the shortcomings of cultural and historical studies based on a psychoanalytic point of view.