It is easy to ignore the differences between intellectual movements that share a common enemy, especially when that enemy looms like a Colossus over the field in question.1 This, it seems to me, is the case in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, where “humanistic” and “hermeneutic” approaches tend to be equated because of their shared opposition to the objectivism, scientism, and mechanism of mainstream or traditional approaches.2 The equation is easy enough to understand.