In a message dated 12/29/00 11:51:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > insitutes" is that it offers them a chance to change their title from social > worker to psychoanalyst. They practice "psychoanalysis" out of their > husbands' > offices in the evening, charging much less than the going rate, as they > have no > overhead and their spousal support limits their monetary needs. This type > has > little interest in psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge, nor do they care > about > controversies or criticisms. They also have little to no experience working > with > severe mental illnesses, which should be a part of every therapist's > training. > There are non-social workers about whom the above is equally true. > > Oh, so right, in addition to having relations with and/or marrying the psychiatrists who then sponser them for the institutes and share their own patients confidential records with these pseudo-analysts. This demeans the lay analysts who have worked hard to achieve the title of "analyst" without such relationships!