[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

They have turned into pill pushers in the last 15 years because the insurance industry has pushed them that way.

You seem to confuse psychiatrists (MD's) with psychologists (PhD's). This is roughly likely confusing a chiropractor with a neurosurgeon. Psychiatrists have NEVER done anything except treat with various medical treatments, including medications and electroshock, among other things. They are not trained in psychoanalysis, and do not practise it.

[a history buff]

You seem to confuse psychiatrists (MD's) with psychologists (PhD's). This is roughly likely confusing a chiropractor with a neurosurgeon. Psychiatrists have NEVER done anything except treat with various medical treatments, including medications and electroshock, among other things. They are not trained in psychoanalysis, and do not practise it.

Nuts. Many American psychoanalytical assocations will not accept non MDs as full members.