[The-Lacanalyst] A theoretical an practical questioning

[Aviva Euripides]

Yes to meeting the 5th at the proposed time, looking forward to it.

*Aviva Euripides*
LMFT, Topologos Lutecium
415-301-5219
avivaeuripides1 at gmail.com



On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM Jacques B. Siboni via The-lacanalyst <
the-lacanalyst at lutecium.org> wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues
>
> I had a very interesting discussion with Aviva, which pinpointed
> the major differences between psychoanalysis in France and the USA.
>
> I wish to have you opinion on this.
> Let's put it this way, you are licensed by the state as psychiatrist,
> psychologist, social worker etc. You spend the evening with a very good
> friend of yours and he says he cannot carry on and he is going to kill
> himself. You do your best to help him change his mind and you go to
> sleep without telling anyone. The next
> morning you hear he is dead, unfortunately. My first question is
> can you be sued? due to the fact you, when you are in your office,
> try to cure people and have got a license to do so.
>
> I imagine (and hope) that you can argue that what happened that evening
> was totally
> PRIVATE and was independent of your profession.
>
> In France situation of psychoanalysis is close to this one, it is a PRIVATE
> relationship between two humans. I mean, not only in the evening but in
> your
> office as well. No one has the right to intermix with it.
> There is an analyst and an analysand who agree to use a certain apparatus
> aimed to facilitate a work of speech (Freudian talking cure). The fact that
> you might be a licensed psychologist
> or psychotherapist of psychiatrist does not make a difference as long as
> the process with your analysand is analytic and not therapeutic. We know
> some people did kill themselves when in analysis with Lacan or other
> analysts but of course they were not sued.
>
> When we talk about lacanalysis we mean this. Because Aviva says that
> even in the
> case of a private practice with a patient she can be sued. Of course in
> the regard of psychoanalysis it is a nonsense.
>
> I'd love to have your vision of this scheme as it seems to be a thorn in
> the
> side of psychoanalysis in your country.
>
> All the very best
>
> Jacques
>
> PS can you meet on Friday 5 at 1400 UTC?
>
>
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