Correction. Re-reading Christopher's message, and Aubyn's original
posting, it seems I misunderstood one point they were making. I have
always understood (evidently mistakenly) that the term "clinical
psychology" overlapped with "academic psychiatry" to the extent that they
each included psychotherapists under their banners. Thus I erroneously
assumed that the quotations from Shorter and Hale about the past influence
of Freudian notions on academic psychiatry covered clinical psychology to
the extent that some forms of psychotherapy came under that banner.
Evidently this is the mistake of an outsider to these fields, so I
apologise if my previous response to Aubyn and Christopher has muddied the
waters (in my mind, at least!). Leaving aside my error, however, I cannot
but note that Riki Koenig reported out of his own experience that in the
not-so-distant past (Riki does not reveal how far back) "most
psychotherapists and *all clinical psych doctoral programs in the New York
area were Freudian, neo-Freudian or psychodynamic*" [my emphasis], so the
issue may be not quite so clear-cut as Christopher indicates. But, I
repeat, all this is a side-issue to Aubyn's original query and my extended
response to it.

Allen

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