Chapter13 How we work and why it matters 1

In 2003, a component society of the International Psychoanalytic Association gave a Conference on psychoanalysis, its ailing Status in the world, and possible paths toward revitalization. In the Conference brochure it is stated: “Recent studies have shown that analysts associated with the American Psychoanalytic Association see an average of 1.5 analytic patients per week. [The Speakers] will discuss the irony of practitioners spending tremendous amounts of time, energy, and money to train to do something they scarcely practice.”