Tradition and Truth

A new concern emerged that focused on various notions of cure and change that did not rest on attaining truth and that considered the personal influences of the analyst-e.g., his support, advice, and comfort-to be integral to the analytic process. Elsewhere in the article, Dr. Segal defines Freud's parameters for the psychoanalytic setting as "interpretation free of advice" with emphasis on "psychoanalytic interaction in the transference." In fact, there is plenty of evidence that Freud offered both advice and reassurance to patients when he thought it was appropriate, and that exclusive focus on "interaction in the transference" belongs to a later psychoanalytic paradigm.