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AOP 3:259-267 (1975)

The Problem of the Training Analysis

Authors: H. A. van der Sterren MD, Henry Seidenberg MD

Abstract

Faced with reconciling irreconcilables, training analysts have for many years been studying the problem of the training analysis and its relation to the psychoanalyic education of their professional analysands. The issue centers around the ways and means of synthesizing the analyst's role as therapist, administrator, and educator.
Dr. van der Sterren's paper makes a timely contribution to the continuing attempt to resolve this dilemma. Other papers dealing with the issue have appeared in recent journals. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association presented two papers promulgating opposing views: McLaughlin (1973) challenges the active contribution of the training analyst to the administrative deliberations and decisions of his institute regarding the progression in training of his own analysand. Calef and Weinshel (1973), on the other hand, make the point that the training analyst is in a position to assess his candidate-patient's capacity to be analyzed and to analyze. Under certain circumstances, such assessments may be reported to the administration of the institute. In past years many other authors have represented differing views of resolving this dilemma. Recently, Fleming (1973) sees four problems in training analysis that are not present in the usual therapeutic situation: “I hope to show that the exigencies of training when imbricated with educational realities have a bearing on both the therapeutic transference-counter-transference interactions and on the development of self-analytic skills. These … problems appear, first, in the candidate's experience of being a patient; second, his experience in also being an analyst; third, his integration of the simultaneous experience of being a patient and a student analyst with both a training analyst and supervisor; and fourth, his experience in terminating his training analysis” (p. 24). “It is not important
Dr. H. A. van der Sterren died suddenly on April 27, 1974. This paper was originally written in h
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Dr. H. A. van der Sterren died suddenly on April 27, 1974. This paper was originally written in h

AOP 3:259-267 (1975)

The Problem of the Training Analysis

Authors: H. A. van der Sterren MD, Henry Seidenberg MD

Abstract

Faced with reconciling irreconcilables, training analysts have for many years been studying the problem of the training analysis and its relation to the psychoanalyic education of their professional analysands. The issue centers around the ways and means of synthesizing the analyst's role as therapist, administrator, and educator.
Dr. van der Sterren's paper makes a timely contribution to the continuing attempt to resolve this dilemma. Other papers dealing with the issue have appeared in recent journals. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association presented two papers promulgating opposing views: McLaughlin (1973) challenges the active contribution of the training analyst to the administrative deliberations and decisions of his institute regarding the progression in training of his own analysand. Calef and Weinshel (1973), on the other hand, make the point that the training analyst is in a position to assess his candidate-patient's capacity to be analyzed and to analyze. Under certain circumstances, such assessments may be reported to the administration of the institute. In past years many other authors have represented differing views of resolving this dilemma. Recently, Fleming (1973) sees four problems in training analysis that are not present in the usual therapeutic situation: “I hope to show that the exigencies of training when imbricated with educational realities have a bearing on both the therapeutic transference-counter-transference interactions and on the development of self-analytic skills. These … problems appear, first, in the candidate's experience of being a patient; second, his experience in also being an analyst; third, his integration of the simultaneous experience of being a patient and a student analyst with both a training analyst and supervisor; and fourth, his experience in terminating his training analysis” (p. 24). “It is not important
Dr. H. A. van der Sterren died suddenly on April 27, 1974. This paper was originally written in h
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Dr. H. A. van der Sterren died suddenly on April 27, 1974. This paper was originally written in h