From
its inception, psychoanalysis has been primarily an institute bound
profession. From the beginning, great care was taken to keep it under
watchful eyes. Freud had a closed circle of trusted colleagues (some of
whom were forced to go their own ways when they had
independent ideas
e.g. Adler, Jung, Rank, Ferenczi, etc) that set a tone for the
exclusionary practices that haunt us today. Internal strife occurs at
all institutes and associations -- both locally, nationally, and
internationally.Programs, not affiliated with the IPA have different umbrellas like AAPCSW, Division 39, NAAP, and others. All of these umbrellas serve different purposes but in the storm we now face -- brought on by managed care, insurance in general, state certification, and especially public apathy and unawareness -- our energies are still spent on competing with each other and within our own circles, instead of reaching out to each other and the public. Our point is that psychoanalysis has been defeating itself for many years. Each group seems unable to see beyond its own walls, fostering a type of denial we cannot afford anymore.
Is this situation inevitable? Maybe so. We each have our own idea of standards that we feel appropriate to practicing psychoanalysis.
What can be done about it? We can reorder our priorities from intra institute conflict to cooperative interaction by finding ways to adjust our focus and our efforts to an inclusive stance.
Scientific inquiry has yet to provide any definitive answers about how best to educate the future psychoanalyst or how best to conduct a psychoanalytic treatment. Many of us rely on the wisdom idealized from 60 years ago and pass it down from generation to generation. This is why analysts of all stripes have so much to offer each other. This annual conference provides a forum in which we can focus on each other's experience in order to make this important profession vibrant once again. Whether your ideas are conservative or revolutionary, we urge you to contribute to this all-inclusive, inter-societal dialogue. The planning committee consists of people from all of the umbrella groups; many of the organzations and societies have agreed to sponsor this conference to address these issues.
TEAM sponsors:
- Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
- Academy of Psychoanalysis of the American Board of Professional Psychology
- Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education
- Adelphi University Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
- American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work/NMCOP
- American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis
- American Institute for Psychoanalysis
- American Journal of Psychoanalysis
- American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)
- Association for Autonomous Psychoanalytic Institutes
- Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine
- Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
- Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
- Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
- Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity
- International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education
- International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
- Karen Horney Institute
- Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
- National Institutes for the Psychotherapies
- National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
- New York Freudian Society
- New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
- NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
- NYU Psychoanalytic Institute
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center
- The Candidate Journal
- William Alanson White Institute