ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief history of psychoanalysis within a Moroccan context, and go on to describe the evolution of psychotherapies and psychoanalysis in Morocco up to the present day. It describes a personal perspective on psychoanalysis, transmission, and culture. In France, we know that most psychoanalysts are opposed to an “order” of psychoanalysts and are still opposed to the type of regulation that has affected psychotherapists and soon could include psychoanalysis. The aim of the Moroccan Psychoanalytic Society is to train psychoanalysts, to develop the discipline and to provide the context for best ethical practice. In order to exist, psychoanalysis has to take place in society; and in 2001 no restrictions were imposed on the creation of the Moroccan Psychoanalytic Society. In the public domain it is not enough that a psychoanalytic discourse exists. In order for real transmission to take place, psychoanalytic discourse must be recognized and accepted by the culture.
