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(1982). Journal of Analytical Psychology, 27:281-282

Samuels, Andrew (London). ‘Fragmentary vision: a central training aim’. (Spring 1981)

Jane Knight

This paper was originally presented at the Vlllth Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and it appears to be a verbatim account. The colloquial style adds to the provocative intention.

Andrew Samuels postulates a current tendency in the training of analytical psychologists to concentrate in an unrealistic and counterproductive way on the idea of wholeness. He advocates the adoption of a fragmentary view of the psyche and a training programme based on conflict. In his summary he lists seven specific proposals to promote what he terms ‘conflict oriented training’.

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I do not recognise the ‘whole person, linear, conventional’ package which Andrew Samuels proposes should be changed either in my own training or in the current course of the Society of Analytical Psychology. But it would be a pity if the response of readers were solely to stand by or react against either of the extreme polarities which Andrew Samuels offers us.

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