Psychoanalysis helps doctors understand patients.

Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be a psychiatrist. Psychiatry has always strived like a younger sibling to establish its status as equivalent to physical medicine, borrowing its clothes to do so. But they don’t fit. The strident tone of non-psychiatrists Salkovskis and Wolpert’s argument against psychoanalysis also belies this anxiety.1 However, anything but the most primitive …