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By the way-I think psychoanalysts can use the same billing code as other psychotherapists, so reimbursement doesn't have to be more restrictive than with other types of therapists. At least that is how my prior insurance paid for it, but insurance doesn't need to know if it's "traditional" psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. Former T billed for a regular therapy sessions weekly, and insurance always paid as many sessions as we did. But as a psychiatrist, he only got paid the same amount as any other therapist, I think. He made much less money doing therapy than medical appointments, but he liked doing therapy better.

haha here I go contradicting something you just said. lol[/QUO

I was thinking the real old school freudian analysis - the kind where clients often go for multiple sessions per week. Otherwise you are right in that how they report it doesn't really reflect what happens in the therapy room. It all depends on the diagnosis in the end, I suppose. :-)