Dear friend To give a kind of temporary conclusion, I'll just advance my personal vision. When I work as psychoanalyst I would not accept that any health department ask me to produce a diploma or license to prove I have the right to practice analysis. Of course as long as a patient puts forward this license demand to me, I consider he is legitimate to do so, but on the way I direct the cure he is in the process of preliminary sessions and not actual analysis. If you confirm this approach is possible in the USA without the major danger of being sued by IPA or any other Health dept, for me it is good to hear this. And Therefore the use of the concept of lacanalyst is useless. If you confirm that someone with no specific diploma can put a plaque on his door mentioning "Psychoanalysis" in California and can receive public and won't have legal problems that's fine and great for me. This is not what I heard when I talked to Aviva, Kris or John. That's the reason why I tried to invent a counter measure. All the best my friend Jacques