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Most analysts (959 of them in the American Association, with even more in training) have flatly and publicly denied all such charges. But whatever they preach, they have modified their practice as they have seen basic analytic principles, stripped of the ritualistic humbug, put to good use in general psychiatry, especially in brief psychotherapy and in group therapy. While last week's conventioneers droned through discussions of such topics as the "denial of envy of the phallus of God," one of the most scholarly of U.S. analysts gave a corridor summation: "When the analysts get up at conventions like this, they hew to the line of dogma. But you don't know what they may be practicing in their offices."