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Article: Shrink vs. Shrink; Such Hostility! Psychologists Win a Legal Round Against Psychiatrists
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- The Washington Post
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- October 18, 1988
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Psychologist Bryant Welch fulfilled a 20-year ambition last week.
He won the right to practice the classic Freudian method of
psychoanalysis, thanks to a legal settlement between psychologists
and psychoanalysts.
Welch and three other psychologists had sued the American
Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute,
the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and the
International Psycho-Analytical Association. Their complaint:
restraint of trade for not allowing psychologists to become
practicingpsychoanalysts.
The 3-year-old suit was settled out of court last week.
"Plaintiffs and Defendants . . . have concluded that it is in the
best interest of ...