Jane Hall, the author of Deepening the Treatment (1998) and Roadblocks on the Journey of Psychotherapy (2004) has posted the following piece on the website of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 

Q: What kind of work do you do?

A: I'm a psychoanalyst.

Q: I thought that was dead. Who can afford to go lie on a couch five times a week where the shrink hardly speaks and nothing happens! And wasn’t Freud proven wrong anyway

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