Psychoanalytic education at the crossroads : reformation, change and the future of psychoanalytic training / Otto Friedmann Kernberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kernberg, Otto F., 1928- author.

Series:

New library of psychoanalysis

The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Education.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--education.

Education.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis--education.

Physical Description:

xx, 285 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First published.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Training in psychoanalysis is a long and demanding process. However, the quality of education available is hugely variable across the world. The structure of psychoanalytic education, centered on the hierarchical "training analysis" system, reflected a concerted effort to maintain a stable and high quality educational process. However, throughout time this system has become a major source of institutional contradictions that affect the training of candidates, the scientific developments within psychoanalysis, and the nexus of psychoanalytic theory and practice with the surrounding scientific, social and cultural world. Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads examines the ways in which group processes, the hierarchal culture in institutes, the influence of individual personalities, the lack of research, and the faults in supervision can all stifle creativity and hinder candidates' progress. Otto Kernberg sets out clear suggestions for how these issues can be addressed, and how he sees the future of psychoanalytic education across all settings and schools of thought. The first part is focused primarily on the analysis of the nature of these problems and their effects on the personal analysis and supervision of candidates; on theoretical and clinical seminars; on selection, progression, and graduation; on educational principles and requirements, developments of theory and technique and, in particular, limitation versus expansion of the realm of interests and applications of psychoanalysis. The second part proposes solutions to the problems encountered, and major suggestions for innovation in psychoanalytic education. Kernberg has made a substantive difference in the development of psychoanalytic institutes and education, and continues to do so. Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads will be essential reading to anyone involved in psychoanalytic education, whether as a psychoanalyst, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, trainee, trainer, or supervisor. Book jacket.

Contents:

The identity of the psychoanalyst

The couch at sea : psychoanalytic studies of group and organizational leadership

Institutional problems of psychoanalytic education

Authoritarianism culture, and personality in psychoanalytic education

Thirty methods to destroy the creativity of psychoanalytic candidates

The pressing need to increase research in and on psychoanalysis

Psychoanalytic supervision : the supervisor's task

Symptoms of failure and early efforts to modify psychoanalytic education

The coming changes in psychoanalytic education : part I

The coming changes in psychoanalytic education : part II

Psychoanalysis and the university : a difficult relationship

Suicide prevention for psychoanalytic institutes and societies

The twilight of the training analysis system.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138928701

1138928704

9781138928718

1138928712

OCLC:

922454363