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The Question of Lay Analysis. Conversations with an Impartial Person. Introduction. THE title of this small work is not immediately intelligible. I will therefore explain it. ‘Layman’ = ‘Non-doctor’; and the question is whether non-doctors as well as doctors are to be allowed to practise analysis.
The Question of Lay Analysis (German: Die Frage der Laienanalyse) is a 1926 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, advocating the right of non-doctors, or 'lay' people, to be psychoanalysts.
- Sigmund Freud
- 1926
The Question of Lay Analysis is Freud's most unique work. The reason being that it is only a one-section work. Freud wrote the work in response to one of his colleague's prosecution. In addition, the work encompasses all the different aspects of Freud, philosopher, humanist a scientist and a physician.
Stated shortly, it was his reaction to an attempt made by the authori ties in 1926 to prevent a prominent non-medical member of the Viena Psycho-Analytical Society from practising psycho-analysis, on the basis of an old Austrian law against 'quackery. The attempt in fact failed, whether as a result of Freud's.
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This article, besides being a general historical account of the nature and meaning of the almost century-long controversy over "the question of lay analysis," also had a specific context and purpose.
Translation. No one should practice analysis who has not acquired the right to do so by a particular training. Whether such a person is a doctor or not seems to me immaterial. Sigmund Freud, 1926.
