[The-Lacanalyst] As a temporary conclusion

[Jacques B. Siboni]

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