One favorite criticism of social work academics – and others who are hostile to
psychoanalytic thought – is that psychoanalysis is an elite form of treatment, an
inappropriate and largely irrelevant body of knowledge for social work. These critics
contend that psycho analysis was expressly designed for neurotic patients the majority
of whom were women posses sing vast financial resources, able to commit literally to
years of therapy conducted at a frequency of 45 sessions weekly