ABSTRACT
The lawsuit was filed on March 1, 1985, by the four psychologists acting on behalf of a declared class of several thousand, and under the official auspices of a newly created entity, the Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Psychology (GAPPP), which had been established for that purpose in 1984 under the umbrella of Division 39. It had a war chest of several hundred thousand dollars. The suit claimed that the American unfairly monopolized the quality psychoanalytic training market across the nation and thereby barred psychologists from proper access to this training and practice, which deprived them of this lucrative and prestigious means of earning a livelihood. As stated previously, the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) was named as a codefendant for allowing its American component to engage in these practices, contrary to the practice of the IPA’s other component organizations around the world.
