Psychoanalysis began 100 years ago as a revolutionary movement that challenged the two-dimensional pre-Freudian psychiatric world. In light of managed care and the psychopharmacologic revolution, it seems that we are returning full circle to that earlier era. In the first half of this century, psychoanalysis changed the very landscape of how the nature of man is viewed. While external historical factors play a significant role in the current decline of psychoanalysis, there are also internal reasons. I shall mention only one of them here.
Fred Sander (Sat,) studied this question.