Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how psychoanalysts can take care of their psychoanalytic institutions.
The book draws urgent attention to concerns about how the field of psychoanalysis can be sustained into the future, and sets out several studies in institutional dynamics as a form of provocation for psychoanalysts to reflect on their position as members of the institution and to act courageously in their collective efforts. Correlations between institutional dynamics and familial relationships are emphasized, alongside varied and detailed accounts of the styles of leadership required to facilitate improved cooperation in psychoanalytic institutions. The authors draw on their experiences as group participants, leaders and observers at both local and supranational levels, to investigate the historical context underpinning the disillusion among psychoanalysts, offering readers richly informed perspectives on how to nurture collegial ethics.
With an emphasis on a shared ethics of responsibility, and the work involved in building secure professional relationships among psychoanalytic groups of all kinds, this book will prove essential to those engaged in understanding the work involved in psychoanalysis, whether in training or in practice.
Author(s): Gabriele Junkers
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 200
City: London
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
How this Book Came About …
Chapter 1 The Institutionalisation of Psychoanalysis
Institutions and Their Functions
Fundamentals of Authority in Institutions
Peculiarities of Psychoanalytic Institutions
Psychoanalysis and the University
The Importance of the Psychoanalytic Institutes for the Transmission of Psychoanalysis
Notes
Literature
Chapter 2 The Psychoanalyst and His Society
Institutional Training of Analysts
Authority and Power in Analytical Institutions
Integrating the Institutional Past
Unease Within the Institutions
The Insidious Impact of Neoliberalism On Our Analytical Institutions
The (Partially) Unconscious Alliances in the Analytical Institution
The Oedipus Complex Versus the Fraternal Complex
In Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Maintaining and Developing a Containing Institution: A Challenge for Psychoanalysts?
I. Introduction
II. Psychoanalysis as a Career
II.1 The Desire to Become a Psychoanalyst
II.2 Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Taming Desires and Learning an Analytic Attitude
II.2.1 Combining the Inner and Outer Paths to Professional Practice
II.2.2 Everyday Psychoanalytic Life
II.3 Transience and the Death of the Analyst
III. The Psychoanalytic Institution: From Twosomes to Public Communication
III.1 A Frame for Work in Psychoanalytic Institutions
III.2 What Do Psychoanalysts Criticize About/within Their Institutions?
III.3 Features and Weaknesses That Shape the Analytic Culture in Our Institutions
III.4 Containment of Psychoanalysis Via Active Containment Lived By Analysts
IV. Some Proposals and Recommendations
Notes
References
Chapter 4 The Sibling Complex and Sibling Attachment: Implications for Conflict and Its Resolution in Psychoanalytic Institutions
Introduction
Expanding Our Focus On the Individual to Include the Role of Culture
Splitting Within Psychoanalytic Organizations: Microcosms of the World
How Does a Focus On Sibling Relationships Help Us Understand Our Professional Dilemmas?
Crises in Point: Two Local Experiences
The Future of Psychoanalysis
Note
References
Chapter 5 Reflections On the Institutional Family of the Analyst and Proposing a “Fourth Pillar” for Education: Opportunities and Problems of...
The Institutional Family: an Uneasy Area
Reopening of Internal Channels in the Training Process
Idealisation and De-Idealisation in the Training Process
From the Analytic Dyad to the Group Reality
Consequences of My Reflections: “The Fourth Pillar”
Conclusions
References
Chapter 6 Curiosity, Facing Reality, and Resistance Against Structuring Psychoanalytic Organisations
Key Concepts
Psychoanalytic Institutions
Deeper Analysis of Organisational Defences
Facing Reality
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 Some Dark Sides of Institutional Life and of Institutional Intimacy
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 8 Psychoanalytic Institutions and How They Will Help Psychoanalysis – If We Let Them
The Challenge: the Oedipus Constellation
What’s Been Going On?
Training
Scientific Life
Work Groups and the Psychoanalytic Attitude
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9 Developing, Holding and Containing New Psychoanalytic Groups
The ING Process and the Role of Sponsors
Splits in Psychoanalytic Societies and the Beginning of Study Groups
The Role of Leaders in the Development of New Groups
Ethical Issues and the Development of a Culture of Confidentiality
About Confidentiality
The Issue of Confidentiality in Relation to Reports From the ING Committees
Several Important Points Were Raised During Our Discussions
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Note
References
Looking ahead
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Index
