The slowness of psychoanalysis in particular may make it unattractive in other cultures, Rolon said.

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His father died when Robert was 12, a trauma he did not acknowledge until he had a nervous breakdown and psychoanalysis in his 50s.

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Even in New York City, modern-day mecca of psychoanalysis, CBT "is spreading everywhere, " says New York psychologist Robert Leahy, author of The Worry Cure.

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The book is part detailed chronicle of Jordan's decision to re-enter the NBA and his first season in that still-unfamiliar blue uniform, and part psychoanalysis of a sports superstar.

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In high school, she read anything she could find on psychoanalysis.

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The United States also had European immigration during this time, and psychoanalysis was also "the thing to do" in America in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, said Albert Brok, a psychologist who practices in New York but grew up in Argentina.

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Whether he was insane, and in what way, has been a matter of eager speculation since psychoanalysis turned posthumous diagnosis into a parlor game.

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By the late 1950s psychoanalysis had become a pillar of psychiatry, though it never had been rigorously tested in trials.

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