Abstract: . . .  essential to ensure a future for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies. Peter Fonagy is Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Tel: 020 7391 1791; e-mail: p.fonagy@ucl.ac.uk. December 2000 623 The Psychologist Vol 13 No 12 Freud in London, aged 83 M AR Y E VANS /S IGMUND F REUD C OPYRIGHTS  . . .
. . .  functioning. And seeing psychology and psychoanalysis as at opposite ends of an epistemological continuum runs the risk of shielding the discipline from appropriate criticisms concerning its profound limitations. Psychoanalysis needs to change. Gathering further evidence for psychoanalysis through outcome studies is important, not simply to improve support for existing practices, but far more to generate a change of attitudes in psychoanalytic practitioners. This is essential to ensure a future for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies. Peter Fonagy is Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at . . .
. . .  psychoanalysis through outcome studies is important, not simply to improve support for existing practices, but far more to generate a change of attitudes in psychoanalytic practitioners. This is essential to ensure a future for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies. Peter Fonagy is Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Tel: 020 7391 1791; e-mail: p.fonagy@ucl.ac.uk. December 2000 623 The Psychologist Vol 13 No 12 Freud in London, aged 83 M AR Y E VANS /S IGMUND F REUD C OPYRIGHTS  . . .
. . .  essential to ensure a future for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapies. Peter Fonagy is Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Tel: 020 7391 1791; e-mail: p.fonagy@ucl.ac.uk. December 2000 623 The Psychologist Vol 13 No 12 Freud in London, aged 83 M AR Y E VANS /S IGMUND F REUD C OPYRIGHTS  . . .
. . .  poorly controlled cohort studies, mostly carried out in Europe, longer intensive treatments tended to have better outcomes than shorter, non-intensive treatments. The impact of psychoanalysis was apparent beyond symptomatology, in measures of work functioning and reductions in healthcare costs. The hope of a future There can be no excuse for the thin evidence base of psychoanalytic treatment. In the same breath that psychoanalysts often claim to be at the intellectual origin of other talking cures (e.g. systemic therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy), they also seek shelter behind the relative immaturity . . .
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