[Critical considerations on psychoanalysis, in relation to its possible introduction in the National Health Service]

The Author points out that the psycho-analysis and the psychotherapy of analytical type have been objects of severe criticisms, not always objective and often contradictory. The medical world opposed or ignored at the beginning the Freudian theories and those from them deriving. At present the diffusion of the psychotherapy finds obstacles both in the resistances offered by the medical and social context to which it is addressed, and in the dogmatism and in the scarce flexibility of some psychotherrapeutic schools and currents. Above all the A. focuses on this last aspect, works a review of the shrewdest and most documented criticisms aroused to psycho-analysis and enunciates, lastly, the postulates required in order to have any psychotherapeutic method considered as scientifically trustworthy. This last requisite is indispensable to the introduction of the psychotherapy into the National Health Service.