THE QUESTION OF LAY ANALYSIS View manuscript page with highlighted passage View full manuscript page unaltered No one should practice analysis who has not acquired the right to do so by a particular training. Whether such a person is a doctor or not seems to me immaterial. Sigmund Freud, 1926 Psychoanalysis has always had an ambiguous relation with medicine, and in the United States many argued that doctors should have a monopoly on analytic practice.

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