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Dr. Rogawski's comments are frank, interesting and take into account the many problems for the analyst who would also do family therapy. I am sorry that he had to bring Sigmund Freud into the picture since such comments seem atavistic. Freud has done more than any of us can hope to do and it seems the matter could rest there without implying Freud might have been a family therapist had he lived.
Dr. Saul Brown's comments were penetrating and I have no quarrel with them. However, it is sad for the state of our art that only the term “sadomasochistic” in all of our psychoanalytic lexicon seems to fit the marital interaction. Perhaps we see sadomasochism more often than it exists simply because we have no other term!
As usual, I found Martin Grotjahn worth attention, and I suspect that the maternal feminine identification in physicians he speaks of has been too long neglected in their therapy—even in the therapy of those in training analyses!
The comments of Dr. Sigmund Gabe remind me of my mother and therefore I cannot
comment on them cogently. For example, his most astonishing statement: “If you interpret the transference relations the patient will be able to handle his reality relations himself.” My mother used to make certain recommendations for action based on her concepts of reality. Unfortunately, it often turned out that this was not someone else's concept of reality and I felt caught in the middle.
The results of analytic therapy would seem to indicate that merely interpreting the transference is an expensive, over-long and unproductive method of therapy. Unfortunately, the individuals who are afraid that change will disturb or distress are the very ones who do not try it and their own reality misses this particular experience.