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Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

The traditional method proceeds by the technique of free association, punctuated by interpretations proposed by the psychoanalytic interviewer.