Main description:

Unusual focus on healing factional divisions in psychoanalysis * Contains contributions from internationally respected clinicians * Offers a thoughtful and practical guide to working effectively with other analysts in a variety of settings

Contents:

How this book came to be... 1. The Institutionalisation of Psychoanalysis 2. The Psychoanalyst and his Society 3. Development and Care for a Containing Institution: a Challenge for Psychoanalysts? 4. The Sibling Complex and Sibling Attachment: Implications for Conflict and its Resolution in Psychoanalytic Institutions 5. Reflections on the Institutional Family of the Analyst and Proposing a "Fourth Pillar" for Education 6. Curiosity, Facing Reality, and Resistance Against Structuring Psychoanalytic Organisations 7. Some Dark Sides of Institutional Life and of Institutional Intimacy 8. Psychoanalytic Institutions and How They Will Help Psychoanalysis - If We Let Them 9. Developing, Holding and Containing New Psychoanalytic Groups Looking Ahead