SCHOLARLY DEBATE OR IDEOLOGICAL BRAWL - REACTIONS TO COMMENTS ON THE SPECIAL SECTION

For the most part, the responses to the special section were disappoin ting because they lacked substantive content. Only Benjamin, Mitchell, and Stolorow seem to have made an effort to engage the issues in a sc holarly manner. Many of the respondents tended to prefer insult, vague ness, and indignation over a scholarly examination of the issues. This made it difficult to respond to those authors' critiques. Where possi ble, specific issues are addressed. The author remains committed to hi s understanding of certain general differences between analysis as it is practiced by relational and by contemporary structural analysts. Th ese differences tend to originate in different theories of pathogenesi s. It is hoped that further debate will more fruitfully examine these differences with a goal of ultimately arriving at a more integrative t heory.