Training analysis
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A training analysis is a psychoanalysis undergone by a candidate (perhaps a physician with specialty in psychiatry) as a part of her/his training to be a psychoanalyst; the (senior) psychoanalyst who performs such an analysis is called a training analyst.
A training analysis is different both from a psychoanalysis performed for the "therapeutic treatment of a patient"[1] and from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
History
The pioneers of psychoanalysis did not have training analyses - of the inner circle around Freud, Ernest Jones said jokingly that the first training analysis was a series of walks taken by Max Eitingon with Freud around the streets of Vienna![2]
Freud himself crdited the Zurich school around Jung with first raising the question of an analysis for budding psychoanalysts, but it was only after WWI that the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute led the way in mandating a training analysis of a year at least:[3] half a century later, it would not be unusual to spend fifteen years in (a double) training analysis.[4]
The principle of an obligatory training analysis was formalised by the IPA in 1922, a strong lead being given in this by Sandor Ferenczi.[5]
Controversies
Many of the controversies that would subsequently plague psychoanalysis came to centre on the question of the training analysis.
Freud/Klein
The controversial discussions within British psychoanalysis swiftly came to focus on the question of analytic training.[6] They were only resolved by setting up separate training programmes within the same psychoanalytic society.
Analyst-in-training
A training analysis is also different from psychoanalysis performed by the psychoanalyst-in-training on a patient and supervised by a supervising analyst. A candidate in training typically analyzes a number of patients, each for three or four years. In the USA, the latter analysis may be offered to the public as "low fee analysis" in the various psychoanalytic institutes affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association.
See also
Notes
References
- Rycroft, Charles (1995), A critical dictionary of psychoanalysis, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books. Pp. xxx, 214, ISBN 0-14-051310-8
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