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As psychoanalysis, in the new millennium, remains mainly a body of thought from which applications are made, and the technical practice of psychoanalysis becomes severely limited by socioecologic factors, psychoanalytic psychotherapy will continue as the main area of applied analysis and its main enduring legacy. The history of the relations between the two disciplines is reviewed. Scientific issues with respect to unity versus multiplication of theories apply equally to the derivative therapy as to its parent psychoanalysis. Analytically guided psychotherapy, as its parent source, is art, craft, but also science. The total theory I described for psychoanalysis applies to analytic therapy as well.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is the main area of applied analysis. The insights of psychoanalysis applied to art, literature, history, or biography, based on other methods of data collection and without the possibility of analytic validation, will always lack the conviction of the analytic process. Only in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, where both the method and the processes of validation of psychoanalysis are shared in the applied area, can there be an approximation of the experience and conviction of psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy also emerges, after the first psychoanalytic century and into the new millennium, as the main enduring legacy of psychoanalysis. While psychoanalysis itself was fashioned during the discovery phases of the new science, and for research and development in its expansion and