Values play an important role in psychoanalytic therapy, which is inevitable considering the fact that a large number of normative questions are at stake for patients. These questions concern, for example, the most favorable resolution of conflicts, the issue of happiness, and the justification of certain desires. This, however, does not in itself imply that a analyst introduces his own norms into his discourse with the patient. Freud related the value free nature of psychoanalysis to scientific research, not to the therapeutic sphere: Moreover, it is quite unscientific to judge analysis by whether it is calculated to undermine religion. authority and morals; for, like all sciences, it is entirely non-tendentious and has only a single aim - namely to arrive at a consistent view of one portion of reality.