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Dear Editor:
Recently I received the spring issue of JPCS (Vol. 6, No. 1), which contains David Bennett's article “Guilt as Capital: Psychoanalysis and the New Russians” (pp. 123-38). As a specialist in Russian culture and psychoanalysis, I read the article with great interest, but also with considerable dismay. The bulk of the article rehearses well-known facts about the history of psychoanalysis in Russia that are available in non-Russian sources (Bennett does not know Russian). The first few pages of the article, however, are outright defamatory. They attack the moral integrity of Russian psychoanalysts,