Confessional practice and frank criticism were the basic forms of the Epicurean cure. 203 It was also considered good that the pupils tell their supervisor about the lapses of others: For he w ill not consider a slanderer one who desires that his friend obtains correction, w hen he is not such, but rather one who is a friend to his friend. For he understands exactly the difference between these. (On Frank Criticism, fr. 50) Nussbaum thinks that these and some related texts from the same work show that the Epicurean therapy model involved the idea of analysing unconscious motives.