ABSTRACT
The Spanish Psychoanalytical Society (SEP) is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 1959 the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) recognized, for the first time, a psychoanalytic Society on the Iberian peninsula, under the name of Lusitanian-Spanish Psychoanalytical Society, embracing analysts from Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona. The II Spanish Republic witnessed a cultural and scientific regeneration, which necessarily brought psychoanalysis to debate and brought with it a wider acceptance among the progressive sectors. From 1922 until the Spanish Civil War, knowledge of psychoanalytic theory carried on growing. In 1971 the Institute of Psychoanalysis of Barcelona opened to continue the training of psychoanalysis; its library subscribes to most of the psychoanalytic journals in existence. Members of the Barcelona Institute started to collaborate in general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals, and also created a group for the teaching of psychoanalytic psychotherapy outside the Institute.
