ABSTRACT
The analysts had come to realize that the relationship psychotherapy– psychoanalysis is an “antinomy”. Sigmund Freud always said that the therapeutic dimension was only one of the possible applications of psychoanalysis, beside many others: for example, the pedagogical dimension. In Italy, the need to regulate “psy” knowledge and practices comes to the fore in the mid 1980s. However, psychoanalysts, too, develop their own great stimulus. Psychoanalysts think that the time has come to “put their house in order”, that is, to distinguish “serious and good” analysts from “fake and dishonest” ones. The consequences for the practice of psychoanalysis are much more profound. In fact, what happens is, on the one hand, a fraud to the detriment of the trainees, and, on the other, a savage ravaging of the credibility of Italian psychoanalysis, which had been conquered through great efforts from idealism, Marxism, fascism, and Roman Catholicism.
