TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. A1 - Aronand, Lewis T1 - Review Barnaby Barratt: Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 571-582. N2 - This introduction to the symposium explores the key features of the American Psychological Association empirically supported treatment (EST) guidelines, the forces leading to their development, and some of the potential implications of these guidelines for the future of psychoanalysis. The EST guidelines consist of (a) a set of criteria for identifying psychotherapeutic treatments that can be considered effective on the basis of research evidence and (b) a list of treatments that meet these criteria. These guidelines are an outgrowth of a more general trend in the health care system – the shift toward an evidence-based practice model. Although the EST movement clearly has important professional implications for psychoanalysis, categorizing and possibly dismissing the relevant concerns as exclusively political or territorial would be a mistake. At issue are fundamentally important epistemological and ethical concerns. Y1 - 2001 ER -