Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might look like, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy can cure the human mind, or what cases it can cure, or how patients can be cured. I am examining how we are tempted to use psychoanalytic theory to explain and justify ourselves when we are asked these clinical questions. Imagine being asked by a patient, “Can you cure me?” We may likely respond, “Psychoanalysis is effective for cases of x,” or “Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is less about treatment and more about making sense of the experience,” or “Here is the process by which the mind is cured.” But none of these are an answer to the question the patient is asking us.