What Was Psychoanalysis?

What made psychoanalysis one of the strongest medical start-ups of the 20th century, and why did it fall into such decline? What role do childhood trauma, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and EMDR play in its downfall? [This essay is] "a fair and accurate telling of the life and death of psychoanalysis. Should be required reading at every psychoanalytic institute." Natalie Hurst, Ph.D.