ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses pressures exerted on individual psychoanalysts by the leader and the group. While members of most societies, organizations, and institutions will to some extent be exposed to such pressures, members of psychoanalytic societies and institutes are particularly vulnerable to them. Most professions rely on other training institutions and universities, outside their own professional organizations, to train their new members. The psychoanalysts, however, undertake this task for themselves for quite understandable reasons, as by its very nature it could not easily be delegated outside the psychoanalytic organization, and the responsibility for the training of new members of the profession is delegated to a small committee of senior and experienced psychoanalysts. The most serious disillusion that often occurs is when the newly qualified psychoanalyst realizes that his personal psychoanalysis has not achieved all he had expected it to achieve and that he is still subject to anxiety, apprehension, and occasional depressions.
