Training Analysis - History

History

The pioneers of psychoanalysis did not have training analyses - of the inner circle around Freud, Ernest Jones said jokingly that the first training analysis was a series of walks taken by Max Eitingon with Freud around the streets of Vienna!

Freud himself crdited the Zurich school around Jung with first raising the question of an analysis for budding psychoanalysts, but it was only after WWI that the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute led the way in mandating a training analysis of a year at least: half a century later, it would not be unusual to spend fifteen years in (a double) training analysis.

The principle of an obligatory training analysis was formalized by the IPA in 1922, a strong lead being given in this by Sandor Ferenczi.

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