The last 10 to 15 years have seen an attack on psychodynamic psychotherapy including psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. To a lesser extent the attack also has been on all forms of intensive and long-term psychotherapy, both outpatient and inpatient. What follows are some tentative psychohistorical thoughts about why this is happening now and how it might be related to other contemporary social and political events.
David Lotto (Thu,) studied this question.