Raymond Cahn

The End of the Couch ?

Why do psychoanalysts refuse to review their methods, while simultaneously recognising that life-styles have evolved and that new pathologies have come into existence? Why, for example, do they remain devoted to the psychoanalyst’s couch, while realising that certain “cures” are at a dead-end? This is a controversial work on the challenges facing psychoanalysis — a field that had its hour of glory in the 1960s but has since been somewhat discredited. Raymond Cahn is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.