Freud's Method ,psychoanalysis, made possible the most minute and intimate study of the soul . The " laboratory" of the analyst has no gadgets . He cannot weigh or count his findings , but he gains insight through dreams , phantasies and associations into the hidden desires and anxieties of his patients . In his "laboratory" relying only on observation , reason and his own experience as a human being , he discovers that mental illness cannot be understood apart from moral problems ; that his patient is sick because he has neglected his soul's demands .
Erich Fromm ,Psychoanalysis and Religion ,1950.
