TY - JOUR A1 - Eckardt Horney, Marianne T1 - The Impossible Ideal: A Patient-Oriented Therapy T2 - Fromm Forum (English Edition – ISSN 1437-1189), 06 / 2002, Tuebingen (Selbstverlag), pp. 20-22. N2 - Our profession is being challenged theoretically and by practical realities. Many of its basic premises are being questioned and a hostile managed care bureaucracy has been curtailing treatment opportunities. These challenges force a latent issue into full view: Is psychoanalytic wisdom tied to its dogma and technical rituals or can much of its wisdom be integrated into a more inclusive interdisciplinary perspective? Psychoanalysis has a history of resisting change. It defined too early what was and what was not to be considered psychoanalysis. Dogmatization made idols out of theories and the rituals of techniques. Theories are valuable tools only and not scientific truth. While institutes and official sanctions have lacked in open-mindedness, the unofficial practicing psychoanalyst has been far more creative in adapting psychoanalysis to the patient's needs and embracing the freedom to develop his or her idiosyncratic ways, wisdom, and skills. We need to increase our therapeutic repertoire beyond those that carry the label of psychoanalysis. I present some considerations that derive from my experience as a psychoanalytically trained dynamic psychotherapist. T3 - Fromm Forum (English edition / englische Ausgabe) - e06/2002c Y1 - 2002 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-Fromm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8449 ER -