Main description:

This book is concerned with the question of what psychoanalytic training should look like today. Should we go on with the system that has developed over time? Or should we abandon it, and if so, for which reasons? It provides a detailed and compelling account of the ongoing, sometimes heated, international debate about psychoanalytic training. A

Contents:

Series Editor's Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction: How do we want to train? -- Change from within in a traditional psychoanalytic institute: twenty-five years of debate and transformation at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society -- Training analysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute -- Psychoanalytic training: then and now -- Current aspects and challenges of analytic training -- Psychoanalytical training in flux -- Psychoanalytic education: between marginalization and irrelevance -- Thoughts on the present and future of psychoanalytic education -- The training analysis: still a roadblock in psychoanalytic education -- Rethinking psychoanalytic education: some critical points for reflection -- Training analysis as institutional enactment -- Still crazy after all these years -- Can organized psychoanalysis create an optimal education? -- Changes and transformations in psychoanalytic training -- Theses on the heart of darkness