ABSTRACT
The increasingly beleaguered status of psychoanalysis worldwide is the major factor contributing to this greater openness. Transferences to Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytic movement are an often unanalysed part of every training and provide analytic legitimacy through identification with the analytic movement. In the tripartite Eitingon model that dominates international psychoanalysis, the training analysis is the most important aspect—supervision and seminars where what is actually learned can be assessed are secondary aspects. The dissensions that have informed psychoanalytic history have been between International Psycho-Analytical Association members, at least until they left. Freud overstated his own "splendid isolation" following hostility to psychoanalysis, and he set up "The Committee" to safeguard psychoanalysis from its foes. Psychoanalytic therapy takes place when the psychoanalytic method is used, when the psychoanalytic stance is adopted. British Psychoanalytical Society members benefit from analysing, supervising, and teaching psychoanalytic therapists.
