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Under present-day conditions the feeling that is most dangerous to a psychoanalyst is the therapeutic ambition to achieve by this novel and much-disputed method something that will produce a convincing effect upon other people. Sigmund Freud ([1912], 115) 2
It is clear that every advance in our knowledge means an increase in our therapeutic power. As long as we have understood nothing, we have accomplished nothing; the more we understand, the more we shall achieve. Sigmund Freud ([1910], 141) 3
Psychoanalysis began with the belief that, for the effective disclosure of the meaning of certain disturbances in human behavior, a psychological exploration of an individual's personal world and history has to take place.4 Such disclosure, when properly obtained and worked through, places the difficulties of living gradually within the scope of that individual's understanding and everyday competence.5