ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with institutes and societies affiliated to the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and their history of the training analysis system. Training analyses became the master instead of an important servant of psychoanalytic education. The training analysis came to play a special independent and dominant role in psychoanalytic education. However, it makes more sense for the educational system to have it play a different role, a role that serves as a function, a means to an end serving the general aims of psychoanalytic education, closely connected with the intellectual discipline and practice. The critiques have reached a crescendo with the culmination of O. Kernberg’s ongoing critiques of psychoanalytic education. Siegfried Bernfeld makes a radical proposal: the dismantling of the whole system of psychoanalytic education which became so bureaucratized as to have lost the spirit and passion of psychoanalysis which belonged to the early pioneers.
