Many psychoanalysts consider their science and their clinical method to be in a state of crisis. They regret the lack of people with emotional problems who are choosing psychoanalysis as their preferred treatment approach and the decreased number of colleagues who want to develop professionally by choosing psychoanalytic training to enrich themselves emotionally and intellectually. With regard to the first group, the patients, the seriousness of pathology is often considered to be an additional problem. With regard to the latter group, the analytic trainees, their advancing age is also viewed as a negative development. Considered this way, the image of psychoanalysis seems to some to be drying