The culture of psychoanalysis in the United States: The use of state and federal government to advance psychoanalysis

Article Abstract:

The influences in American psychoanalysis that led to the New York State law which licenses the practice of psychoanalysis are discussed. Some psychoanalytic organizations in the United States are pursuing establishing state licensing laws in psychoanalysis and federal guidelines for training standards in psychoanalysis.

United States, Product standards, safety, & recalls, Standards

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The lay and the law: Legislating the "impossible profession"

Article Abstract:

The New York law is cited to illustrate how the misunderstanding of lay analysis has provoked legislation creating a new mental health profession replacing the notion of the "impossible profession". It threatens psychoanalysis as Sigmund Freud conceived it, by assimilating psychoanalysis to medicine and to mental health.

Management dynamics, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, New York, Administration of Public Health Programs, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Programs, Management, Psychiatric services, Mental health services, Company business management

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