Section 2529 - [Effective until 1/1/2025] Psychoanalysts(a) Graduates of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, or institutes deemed equivalent by the Medical Board of California who have completed clinical training in psychoanalysis may engage in psychoanalysis as an adjunct to teaching, training, or research and hold themselves out to the public as psychoanalysts, and students in those institutes may engage in psychoanalysis under supervision, if the students and graduates do not hold themselves out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "psychological," "psychologist," "psychology," "psychometrists," "psychometrics," or "psychometry," or that they do not state or imply that they are licensed to practice psychology.(b) Those students and graduates seeking to engage in psychoanalysis under this chapter shall register with the Medical Board of California, presenting evidence of their student or graduate status. The board may suspend or revoke the exemption of those persons for unprofessional conduct as defined in Sections 726, 2234, 2235, and 2529.1.(c) Each application for registration as a research psychoanalyst or student research psychoanalyst shall be made upon an online electronic form, or other form, provided by the board, and each application form shall contain a legal verification by the applicant certifying under penalty of perjury that the information provided by the applicant is true and correct and that any information in supporting documents provided by the applicant is true and correct.(d) This section shall remain in effect until January 1, 2025, and as of that date is repealed.Ca. Bus. and Prof. Code § 2529
Amended by Stats 2023 ch 294 (SB 815),s 26, eff. 1/1/2024.Amended by Stats 2021 ch 649 (SB 806),s 30, eff. 1/1/2022.Amended by Stats 2017 ch 775 (SB 798),s 98, eff. 1/1/2018.Chapter heading repealed by Stats 2017 ch 775 (SB 798),s 97, eff. 1/1/2018.Amended by Stats 2016 ch 303 (AB 2745),s 9, eff. 1/1/2017.Amended by Stats 2015 ch 426 (SB 800),s 19, eff. 1/1/2016.Amended by Stats 2007 ch 678 (AB 253),s 25, eff. 1/1/2008.