Dealing with labyrinths. General practice and research in psychoanalysis--an evaluation

If psychotherapy research is to yield results relevant for therapeutic practice, it must broaden its receptiveness for the peculiarities of this field and for the methods employed by therapists. The therapist works on-line, while the researcher enjoys the advantage of working off-line. Research in psychotherapy has addressed the world of images and affects, the interactive process, the dependence on models, and the specific manner of information processing characteristic of therapy. The author compares the different ways in which the therapeutic and the empirical settings handle suspicion and error.