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The German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT) is an umbrella organization that actively represents the interests of the profession on behalf of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV, the German chapter of the IPA), the German Psychoanalytical Society (DPG, the German chapter of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies), and the German Society for Analytical Psychology (C. G. Jung). The DGPT is also a psychoanalytical association with its own membership, training statutes, training institutes, and scientific conferences.
The theme of the annual conference in 1990 was the Training Analysis and Psychoanalytic Education. Five of the contributions to this collection of conference papers were written by members of the DPV, four by members of the DPG, and three by members of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic societies.
The first contribution is by Hermann Beland. In “The Good-Enough Training Analyst,” a fictitious candidate expresses the wish to have a training analyst who knows that “good enough” means meeting a human need. This training analyst is good enough from experience; he or she knows that the analyst's love is understanding, that his hating should also be a form of understanding and that he, the training analyst, must allow himself to become involved in order to fulfill the candidate's desire to restore the balance. This training analyst resists as well as he can the regressive phenomena of the large group in the form of psychoanalytic institutions, and takes into account the shift of the negative transference to the training institute. This training analyst also knows what it is like to be lonely, the role of envy and narcissistic anxiety, not only in himself, but also in the group of analysts at the institute and in the analytical society. He tries to make use of the analysis of his countertransference to avoid the formation of an imago of the destructive analyst. He sets an example in t