On my first trip to Brazil in 2004 to attend the International Bion Conference in São Paulo, my wife and I took a domestic flight to Iguaçu Falls. I was seated next to a young Brazilian woman who spoke excellent English and she asked my profession. Upon saying I was a psychoanalyst, she reacted as though being face-to-face with a rock star, “Wow, a psychoanalyst, that's great!” She went on to say that her family had encouraged her to pursue either psychoanalysis or a law degree as a career and also said that many of her friends aspired to be analysts, a highly desirable occupation in Brazil. The young woman's enthusiasm and knowledge of psychoanalysis stood in marked contrast to the typical American response I