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The IPA model of training and its buried mistake.*

Fusing the Executive Committee  and the Training Committee  of the IPA in the early years of establishing training was a first mistake. It was recognised very early on that the distinction between the team that was running the
analytic organization became the defacto team running training. The mistake is that the role of the executive was to manage the members’ affairs, while the ITC was to manage seekers of membership. The fusion of the two
committees created a case of conflict of interest that plagued the IPA in every aspects of its future varied activities  Anna Freud (1938) called it wrong to confuse teaching with doing analysis, and for the setup of training analysis permitting choosing the trainees from the circle of interested candidates. Eitingon, the father of training psychoanalysis apologized to the ITC (report,1927) that didactic analysis and therapeutic analysis are Continue reading The IPA model of training and its buried mistake, Op-Ed by Ahmed Fayek

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