Academy member, Linda Young,  Ph.D.  presented a  paper, entitled, MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS in an era of Evidence Based Practice, approaches the topic of EBT from the perspectives of philosophy and epistemology, highlighting their relevance in discussing the evidentiary bases of different forms of psychology. The far ranging implications of viewing psychoanalysis as an exploration of the mind, distinguished as an interpretive or hermeneutic science, in distinction to a form of psychology belonging to the natural sciences are discussed, especially as this pertains to the ways in which the discipline is called upon to prove its efficacy and worth. The paper explores the ways in which pressure within the discipline of psychoanalysis to validate psychological practice according to the demands of the EBP movement, invites an unquestioned acceptance of the premises of a natural science with its accompanying objectivist, positivist assumptions. The discussion highlights the unique philosophical ground upon which psychoanalysis stands, which includes vital premises about individuality in contrast to the generic, the importance of context in contrast to extractable, objectifiable ‘truths’ and the inherent opacity and contradictoriness of human experience in contrast to more manifest, identitarian notions of self identity. A detailed clinical illustration is used to demonstrate the insurmountable difficulties that can be encountered when the theoretical, philosophical, and clinical assumptions of a psychoanalytic treatment are significantly different from those informing the scientific research methodology used to evaluate such work.