REPLY TO BLATT AND FONAGY.

Discusses the use of psychotherapeutic intervention in response to critiques by Sidney Blatt and Peter Fonagy to the article "On Analytic Process." Problem with the lack of empirical foundation in psychoanalysis; Limits of controlled clinical trials when studying psychotherapeutic intervention; Measurement of patient contributions to analytic process; Advantage of using a general prototype of analytic process in empirical studies and validation of psychoanalytic methods.