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Putting practice into theory: making the training analyst system coherent.

Mitchell Wilson¹

¹Faculty, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA. mdwmd@comcast.net

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

|June 12, 2010

Summary

Psychoanalytic training analysis faces legitimacy issues due to system incoherence. Reconciling analytic values with the analyst

Area of Science:

Psychoanalysis
Psychotherapy Training

Background:

The training analysis is central to psychoanalytic education.
Legitimacy challenges and internal/external pressures impact training analysis.
A lack of coherence in the training analyst system leads to idealization and devaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the legitimacy crisis in psychoanalytic training analysis.
To explore the idealized fantasies surrounding the training analyst role.
To reconcile analytic values with the analyst's role in candidate analysis.

Main Methods:

Literature review on the analyst's position in the psychoanalytic process.
Conceptual analysis of the tripartite model of psychoanalytic education.
Examination of internal and external pressures on training analysis.

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Main Results:

The training analyst system suffers from a lack of coherence.
Idealized fantasies of the training analyst role are prevalent.
Recent literature highlights the analyst's decentered and conflicted status.

Conclusions:

A more coherent and consistent position on candidate analysis is needed.
Reconciling analytic values with the analyst's role is crucial.
Addressing the legitimacy issues requires integrating theoretical and practical insights.