Psychoanalyst
1,340 active US providers register Psychoanalyst as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 348th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 102L00000X
- Grouping
- Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
- Classification
- Psychoanalyst
- Active providers
- 1,340
- States covered
- 42 of 51
What the code means
Psychoanalysis is a comprehensive, theoretical framework which, when applied to a treatment process, consists of an intensive verbal, therapeutic relationship between an analyst and an analysand which aims for symptom relief, emotional growth, and personal integration. The psychoanalytic treatment process includes, but is not limited to, the recognition of unconscious processes and conflicts; the significance of developmental influences; and the impact of resistances, defenses, transference and countertransference phenomena. Treatment is enhanced by an understanding developed in the analyst's training and personal analysis of unconscious manifestations, such as dreams, slips of the tongue, fantasies and day dreams. Psychoanalytic technique varies in relation to theoretical orientation.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 715 | |
| California | 187 | |
| New Jersey | 52 | |
| Pennsylvania | 42 | |
| Massachusetts | 38 | |
| Colorado | 30 | |
| Illinois | 26 | |
| Connecticut | 22 | |
| Florida | 21 | |
| Washington | 19 | |
| Texas | 19 | |
| Michigan | 16 | |
| Maryland | 15 | |
| District of Columbia | 13 | |
| Ohio | 12 |
Showing the 15 largest of 42 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,212 of these are people and 128 are organisations, so 10% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2012, and 288 registered in the last five years, 21% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY553
- BROOKLYN, NY48
- LOS ANGELES, CA24
- PHILADELPHIA, PA22
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA16
- CHICAGO, IL15
- WASHINGTON, DC13
- PASADENA, CA12
- LAS VEGAS, NV10
- BEVERLY HILLS, CA9
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Psychoanalyst most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical Social Worker | 47 | 3.5% |
| Mental Health Counselor | 46 | 3.4% |
| Marriage & Family Therapist | 32 | 2.4% |
| Counselor | 16 | 1.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 15 | 1.1% |
| Clinical Psychologist | 13 | 1.0% |
| Professional Counselor | 12 | 0.9% |
| Psychoanalysis Psychologist | 11 | 0.8% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.