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What makes research “psychoanalytic?” We might so designate any research that purports to test psychoanalytic conjectures. There is no reason to suppose, in that case, that a discussion of the methodology of psychoanalytic research would be anything more than a discussion of the methodology of science, with or without minor adjustments to accommodate the peculiarities of subject matter.1
On the other hand, we might call “psychoanalytic” any research that makes use of the method of inquiry associated with the practice of psychoanalysis. This method includes features of the psychoanalytic situation, e.g., that certain conditions are constant; that the participation of the psychoanalyst is disciplined; and that an analysand, in a state of partial and circumscribed regression, suspending critical judgment and censorial mental