Go to www.naap.org for info on requirements for lay analysts.

Jean Fitzpatrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Maxwell Young" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: Legal status of PA


> My understanding is that until fairly recently one could only become
> clinically practicing  member of the American Psychoanalytic
> Association if one had a medical qualification. However, this was
> sucessfully challenged in a legal action by clinical psychologists.
> Now people regularly become APsaA psychoanalysts at a number of APsaA
> centres throughout the country. In addition, there were then and are
> now other organizations where people who were not physicians could
> train to become a psychoanalyst, e.g., the National Psychological
> Association for Psychoanalysis - http://www.npap.org - which was
> founded to cater for and train non-medical practitioners who call
> themselves psychoanalysts. There is also a Section 39 of the American
> Psychological Association for people who practice or are interested
> in psychoanalysis.
> It is my impression that in America (unlike Britain where its
> exclusive use by members of the British Psychoanalytic Society is
> currently under challenge) the term is not particularly rigidly
> confined to people who have had full psychoanalytic trainings. I
> think people are referred to as doing psychoanalysis who actually do
> psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Indeed, the practice of most pukka
> psychoanalysts nowadays involves lots of psychoanalytic
> psychotherapy. Lacanians freely use the term psychoanalyst to
> describe themselves worldwide.
> The distinction between psychoanalysis ands psychoanalytic
> psychotherapy is not clearly drawn, but it usually means 4-5 sessions
> of 50 mins per week for psychoanalysis and less for psychoanalytic
> psychotherapy. However, I have heard of a US trainng which produces
> graduates who have had and have given one session per week, but this
> is a very unusual situation.
> You will see that all of these categorizations are much-disputed in
> some quarters.
>
> Best, Bob
>
> >Can anyone tell me if it is legal in the U.S. for people other than
> >physicians to practice psychoanalysis, and if so, what are the
> >qualifications for such a practice.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >           Larry D. Lyons
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