Introduction

The psychoanalysts of the WAP do not reserve their practice just for analysts, nor for those who knowingly seek out an analysis. Our practice opens out onto various fields: hospitals, public or private institutions (which accept, for example, children or adults with severe psychic or personality disorders), those with drug addictions or eating disorders, those who need help in the sphere of relationships, or are experiencing subjective crises. Similarly, compulsions, depression and the diverse expressions of contemporary mental suffering find in psychoanalysis an opportunity to recover the dimension of meaning. This wide range of psychoanalytic interventions implies a great demand at the level of the formation of analysts and a wager of work on the side of speech and the existence of the Unconscious. The variety of fields of application of psychoanalysis requires the creativity and the invention of our practitioners, as well as a precise and exhaustive formation based on the personal analysis and the supervision of their clinical work within our Schools, in order to meet the needs of the times. The Lacanian orientation – which has clear and precise principles – enables the psychoanalyst to have a flexible practice. The appropriate use of interpretation, the analytic act, interventions and so on allows us to distinguish and consider exceptional cases and to implement a treatment for each one.