A psychoanalyst is one psychoanalyzing which assumes to direct in its turn a psychoanalytical Cure. The psychoanalyst listens to free associations of psychoanalyzing in a neutral and benevolent way. He can sometimes decide to stop this speech by an intervention (interpretation psychoanalytical) or by the meeting closure (scansion). The psychoanalyst with the responsibility of guarantee the integrity of the psychoanalytical framework.

Formation

didactic Analysis

The didactic analysis is a prolonged psychoanalytical Cure. The future psychoanalyst must follow itself a psychoanalysis in order to measure the effects of them; that which wants to listen to the unconscious speech will have initially to listen to its clean Inconscient.

The formation also implies a supervision of the first analyzes.

Analyze profanes

The psychoanalysis quickly had to discuss question of a medical formation. Psychoanalysts were continued because they did not have any and Sigmund Freud was in favor of a profane analysis, i.e. not passing by a medical formation.