So who does own psychoanalysis? Equally pertinent, what is psychoanalysis? Even before the death of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was splintering into different groups, each convinced of their superiority to the other.

Introduction -- Academic -- Pathways for psychoanalysis -- What is psychoanalysis? -- Reflections on psychic ownership and psychoanalytic studies -- From insight to self-begetting -- History -- Notes towards the genealogy of a word: "psychotherapy" -- The British Medical Association: Report of the Psycho-Analysis Committee, 1929 -- What has happened to psychoanalysis in the British Society? -- An historical view -- Political -- The New York State psychoanalytic licence -- The geography of psychoanalysis: sovereignty, ownership, and dispossession -- Knowledge in failure -- Who decides who decides? -- Can there be a monopoly on psychoanalysis? -- Science -- Critique of psychoanalysis -- What can developmental psychopathology tell psychoanalysts about the mind? -- Is the brain more real than the mind? -- How NOT to escape from the Grünbaum Syndrome: a critique of the "new view" of psychoanalysis -- The evasiveness of Freudian apologetic