Full Description
This book is a collection of commentaries by 40 psychoanalysts-in-training spanning across 29 different countries, shedding light on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis - its training, practice and relevance. The perception and landscape of typical psychoanalysis, the typical psychoanalyst and the typical psychoanalytic trainee have witnessed a tectonic shift since Dr. Sigmund Freud first introduced this technique over a hundred years ago. This book challenges and inspires us to think, at all levels, about reimagining how psychoanalysis should be taught in the 21st century. Inspired by Fred Busch's Dear Candidate (Routledge, 2021), chapters are written in the style of personal letters from candidates to their faculty and institutes. Each contributor shares a piece of their mind - and their heart - about the trials and tribulations of the process of psychoanalytic training - what they cherished, what they loathed, why they spoke up and why they dropped out.
This book is an important read for both prospective candidates as well as veteran psychoanalysts and institutional leaders.
Contents
1. A letter to the British Psychoanalytical Society, London, United Kingdom (1913) 2. A letter to the Paris Psychoanalytic Institute, France (1915) A letter to the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis, Switzerland (1919) 3. A letter to the Swiss Society of Psychoanalysis, Switzerland (1919) 4. A letter to the Indian Psychoanalytical Society, Kolkata (1922) 5. Another letter to the Indian Psychoanalytical Society, Kolkata (1922) 6. A letter to the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute, Tel-Aviv (1934) 7. A letter to the Swedish Psychoanalytical Society, Stockholm (1934) 8. A letter to the Czech Psychoanalytic Society, Prague, Czech Republic (1936) 9. A letter to the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Rome (1936) 10. A letter to the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, Buenos Aires (1942) 11. A letter to the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association, Santiago (1949) 12. A letter to the Japan Psychoanalytical Society, Tokyo (1955) 13. A letter to Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay, Montevideo (1961) 14. A letter to the Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre, Brazil (1963) 15. A letter to the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society, Helsinki (1964) 16. A letter to the Association Psychanalytique de France, Paris (1964) 17. A letter to the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Portland, United States of America (1965) 18. A letter to Institut für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie Freiburg, Germany (1965) 19. A letter to the Mexican Association for the Practice, Research and Teaching of Psychoanalysis, Mexico City (1965) 20. A letter to Institut de Psychanalyse de Montréal, Canada (1969) 21. A letter to Sociedad Psicoanalítica de México, Mexico City (1972) 22. A letter to the Australian Psychoanalytic Society, Sydney (1973) 23. A letter to Asociación Psicoanalítica de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1977) 24. A letter to Asociación Psicoanalítica de Madrid, Spain (1981) 25. A letter to the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco, USA (1989) 26. A letter to Instituto de Formação e Terapêutica Psicanalítica do Porto, Lisbon, Portugal (1999) 27. A letter to the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute, Minneapolis, USA (1999) 28. A letter to the Western Canada Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Vancouver (2005) 29. A letter to Société Psychanalytique de Recherche et de Formation, Paris, France (2005) 30. A letter to Instituto Latinoamericano de Psychoanalysis, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2006) 31. A letter to the Istanbul Psychoanalytical Association, Turkey (2007) 32. A letter to the Korean Institute for Psychoanalysis, Seoul (2007) 33. A letter to the South African Psychoanalytic Association, Johannesburg (2009) 34. A letter to the Estonian-Latvian Psychoanalytic Society, Tallin and Riga (2010) 35. A letter to Societatea Română de Psihanaliză, Bucharest, Romania (2011) 36. A letter to the Taiwan Center for the Development of Psychoanalysis, Taipei (2018) 37. Another letter to the Taiwan Center for the Development of Psychoanalysis Taipei (2018) 38. A letter to Asociación Panameña de Psicoanálisis, Panama City (2020)
