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In the age-old dispute as to whether psychoanalysis belongs to science or to the humanities, the author favors the former. He sees interpretation in the analytic
situation as providing scope for reasoned hypotheses which can be validated by empirical examination. This implies that interpretations must be framed not only in brief and simple terms, but also in such a way as to lend themselves less to the verification of theoretical psychoanalytic truths than to the clarification of the truth specific to the given dyadic constellation. Etchegoyen claims that it is then possible for the analysand to confirm or refute the analyst's interpretation. A successful interpretation, in which the analysand finds the hypothesis convincing, is both a scientific discovery and a healing factor.