ABSTRACT
Traditional medicine deals with attempts to cure disease and pathology through the use of medicines, surgeries, manipulations, and technologies in which diagnosis leads to some form of intrusive treatment. The focus of the analysis turns to the relationship itself as the process unfolds, and this is never the case—or even necessary—in traditional health care. When dealing with a patient who has suffered early trauma, particularly sexual molestation, it is important that the analyst do more than analyze. Psychoanalysts know today that the safety of the relationship, which is so crucial to growth, can be attenuated or enhanced by our own anxieties. Canadian psychologists are able to survive in Canada as private practitioners with a lower fee schedule. Some Canadian psychologists think they are better off working outside the system, while others lament the fact they are in the system. In Ontario activist psychologists have been able to have psychology included in Workman’s Compensation benefits at a higher fee than psychiatry.
