ABSTRACT
The Paris Psychoanalytical Society [Societe Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP)] was founded in 1926 after the turmoil of the First World War by a group of young and ambitious psychiatrists who joined forces with lay analysts already trained in Berlin or Vienna. From 1926 until 1953 the history of psychoanalysis in France practically coincides with the institutional history of the SPP; from then on, as in most countries, splits and secessions gave rise to numerous societies, some linked to the International Psychoanalytical Association while others followed their own path. This chapter focuses on information and gives the background that introduced the "French model". In Paris the founding of the journal introduced psychoanalysis and translations of Sigmund Freud's work. The institutional problem and the training issue would be a major preoccupation in the SPP as in France, finally leading through painful birth to a French model.
