Is Psychoanalytic Therapy an escape or a crutch?
Psychoanalytic therapy is at times pleasurable and comforting, but it is also hard work. While relatives or friends sometimes imagine that it is self indulgence or a crutch, anyone who has had an analysis can readily report that rather than escaping from reality, the patient learns to face reality comfortably. He is not encouraged to be dependent, but to become appropriately independent.
