The possibilities of psychoanalysis in psychiatry

In the year 1917 Freud gave a lecture on the topic of psycho analysis and psychiatry. On that occasion he asked his listeners to ‘endeavour to allow the psycho-analytic view to grow up quietly in you alongside of the popular or psychiatric one, till opportunities arise for the two to influence each other, to compete with each other and to unite in leading to a conclusion.'[1] During the first half of the twentieth century, psychoanalysis revolutionized our understanding of mental life.…