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18 July 1927
81 Harley Street, London
Dear Professor,
I appreciate very highly your kindness in writing about difficult topics at the most precious part of your holiday—the start. The content of what you had to say was also most welcome.
About the Kinderanalyse I was relieved to see that the differences you had mentioned are of degree only, and not of principle, so that—as you say—we may safely leave them to experience.
Our difference about the Lay Analysis does not arise from one of aim, for we both want the best medical and lay material for our analysts, but of method in reaching this. You find lay analysts need defending, while I think they are safe except in America (and there only temporarily). On the other hand I believe that the plan of telling candidates they need not study medicine could only end in ψα being lay, and separated from medicine altogether—to the disadvantage of both. My reasons for this are given in my essay in the Journal,1 which I should like to think you have read.
I spent yesterday in The Hague with Eitingon. We were shocked to find