ABSTRACT
In 1985 psychologists took what seemed at the time a very radical approach to the problem psychologists were having obtaining psychoanalytic training. While the lawsuit effort was arduous for all, there is little dispute now, even within the American Psychoanalytic Association, that training psychologists has had a wonderful and rejuvenating impact on psychoanalysis in this country. Psychologist lobbyists were in regular contact with them, and, combined, they added energy geared toward securing a place for intensive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in the health care reform. Medicare and other advocacy struggles had seasoned them in the political arena. If there is one lesson psychologists have learned from the past decade, it is that psychoanalysis will be greatly affected by the political and legal processes.
