Psychoanalytic treatment is by no means a therapeutic method of which the medical profession holds a monopoly... it is an art, a technique, a science of psychological life, which the patient, when cured, might, and ought to continue to practice for his own good and for the good of those amongst whom he lives.
Psychoanalytic treatment 1s 2rue stake is that it is not enough to convince the patient, rather the unconscious itself must be brought to assume a certain truth.
Psychoanalytic treatment is not itself the cure, but it it is like a surgical operation. The recovery comes the procedure is over. It is like an operation of opening up a cavity and scraping out puss. The operation is not itself the cure, but is the treatment that removes obstacles and creates the conditions which in turn leads to the course of the process in the direction of the cure.