ABSTRACT
Emanuel Berman’s unusual “double” psychoanalytic training places him in a unique position to write about psychoanalytic education. Berman first received his psychoanalytic training at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. This program began in 1961 and from its inception was dedicated to academic freedom, student activism and participation, a plurality of psychoanalytic perspectives, and to a comparative psychoanalytic approach to education. Later, moving to Israel, Berman undertook yet a second psychoanalytic training at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute in Jerusalem. This program, begun by Max Eitingon in 1933, provided the more traditional psychoanalytic education founded on the tripartite approach of supervision, course work, and personal analysis. Berman went on to become an active faculty member of both programs and has written extensively about the history of psychoanalytic theory, training, and practice.
