ABSTRACT
Until 1992, the Italian Psychoanalytical Association (AIPsi) shared its history and tradition with the Italian Psychoanalytical Society [Societa Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI)], and many of the AIPsi founding members had been active participants of the SPI's institutional life, in office in a variety of positions. On 26 July 1992 some analysts of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, including Emilio Servadio—a pioneer of psychoanalysis in Italy, founder in 1932, together with Edoardo Weiss, of the SPI—addressed a request to the Executive Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association to set up a Study Group. The first task of the AIPsi was to draft bylaws that reflected the common project of institutional and scientific life, and especially the organization of an Institute that would best guarantee the training of candidates. The AIPsi follows the Eitingon model. The experience of constructing a new psychoanalytic society in Italy and the gradual consolidation of a societal identity have allowed the painful process of separation from the SPI.
