Is there a crisis of psychoanalysis? If we believe the published reports for organized psychoanalysis it would seem there is indeed a crisis. The American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) reports that psychoanalytic practice has declined at the rate of 1% a year for the past 17 years (Margolos, 1995, p. 19). American psychoanalysts now average around 3 patients in analysis; the average patient load may even be smaller than reported because further enquiry is likely to reveal that some analysts define analysis as “occurring in less frequent and shorter modes” (Sanville, 1995, p. 14). This reduction