One important thing to note, explains Krauss, is that while psychoanalysis might be on the decline, it does not mean that the psychodynamic perspective is dead. "Psychologists today talk about the psychodynamic not the psychoanalytic perspective," she writes, "As such, this perspective refers to the dynamic forces within our personalities whose shifting movements underlie much of the basis for our observable behavior. Psychoanalysis is a much narrower term referring to the Freudian-based notion that to understand, and treat, abnormal behavior, our unconscious conflicts must be worked through."
Psychoanalysis as Freud conceived it might certainly be on the decline, but that doesn't mean that the psychodynamic perspective has disappeared or that it will be going anywhere soon.