1The "syncretistic dilemma" of the training analysis subsumes intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group phenomena of wide range and complexity, and much in need of ongoing clarification, since their traditional acceptance as inseparable and inevitable has too often led to a justifying of training analytic practices that would be quite unacceptable in a therapeutic analysis.

2One such institutionalized practice, 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, is challenged in this paper.