Click Here to Read: “Freud’s Failure to Recall the Surname of Julius Mosen” by Robert Lippman. This is an original paper which has not been published before.
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Freud at the Crossroads in Rome Monologue (with optional Epilogue) By Robert L. Lippman
Click Here To Read: Freud at the Crossroads in Rome Monologue (with optional Epilogue) By Robert L. Lippman. Robert Lippman PhD is an all but retired clinical psychologist living in Elizebethtown, Kentucky. This play was given last September in Elizabethtown. Also staged this year by NYC’s Emerging Artists Theatre on May 23rd, 2008.
Reflections on a Profession: What’s in a Name? by Gerald J. Gargiulo
Click Here to Read: Reflections on a Profession: What’s in a Name? by Gerald J. Gargiulo. This article was previously published: Gargiulo, Gerald, (2007). Psychoanalytic Psychology vol.24, no.3 pp 503-506 and appears here with the requisite rights and permissions.
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A Plea for a Measure of Privacy in Psychoanalytic Education by Isaac Tylim
Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis…
The International Psychoanalytic website is pleased to present an important op ed piece by Marian Tolpin. This eminent analyst from Chicago explains clearly, articulately, and persuasively why the training analyst title should be retired. The Executive Board of the International Psychoanalytic Association would not permit its publication. The International Psychoanalytic Blog stands for freedom of expression and welcomes comments on this important and timely article.
Jane S. Hall
Op Ed Editor
Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis,
in light of the controversy over Training Analysis status
Marian Tolpin, M.D.
There is currently a great deal of debate taking place in psychoanalytic training centers, around the world and here in the United States, concerning whether there should be a separate category of graduate psychoanalysts designated as specially qualified to analyze future psychoanalysts. Among those who do believe that there needs to be such a category, further debate has raged on what that special qualification might entail and on the particulars of how (when, by whom) it should be established and evaluated.
In what follows below I reflect on my own experiences in regard to this category and on the lengthy history of the Training Analysis question as a disruptive force in institutional psychoanalysis. As I consider why this fractious issue, which has caused so much dissension in our profession, remains perpetually unresolved, I conclude that the Training Analysis serves a Group Self cohesive function. As such, it joins a list of other myths that have served that function in the past; myths that were clung to but ultimately had to be relinquished in the face of contradictory evidence. Continue reading Thoughts on the Group Self of psychoanalysis…
The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference in The NAAP Newsletter
The following articles on The Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference appeared in the NAAP News, Volume 31 Issue 1 (Winter 2008).
Click Here to Read: The Imposible Profession by Rob Marchesani.
Click Here to Read: The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Psychoanalysis, Universities, and the New Cultural World by Frederick Feirstein.
Click Here to Read: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Education: Analyzing the Challenges and Proposing Some Changes—a Roundtable and “Umbrella Panel” by Norman A. (“Drew”) Clemens, Judith Logue, and Estelle Shane.
Click Here to Read: Constructing Our Psychoanalytic Ethos: How and What We Teach–impressions by Robert Quackenbush.
Click Here to Read: Educating Psychoanalysts in Today’s Regulated World: Licensing and Other Matters by Paul W. Mosher, Mary Beth Cresci, Cj Churchill, Phee Rosnick, Sy Coopersmith, and Arlene Kramer Richards.
Click Here to Read: Power and Authority in Institute Life by Joseph Scalia III,
Click Here to Read: What Do We Educate For? The Role of Psychoanalysis in The Age of Psychotherapy by William Hurst.
