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20th May 1954.
Dear Professor Henderson,
I am grateful to you for the fact that you took the trouble to answer my letter in such detail. The nature of your reply seems to allow me to write to you again.1
We are corresponding on two topics and first I would like to say some more about lay psycho-therapy. I cannot help agreeing with a great deal that you have written but I think that although it is not possible to control the analyses done by lay analysts, or by any other analyst, it is possible and it should be increasingly possible, to control the type of case that is sent to the lay analyst. Diagnosis is a matter of extreme difficulty in these matters, as I need hardly