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I greatly looked forward to reading this book from its title alone, as it seemed to promise controversy and new insights, particularly since it was written by a practising psychoanalyst from outside the usual UK/USA perspective. Jurgen Reeder is a relatively young PhD training analyst from the Swedish Psychoanalytic Institute; this book is a composite of some of his earlier papers as well as a veritable PEP Archives search on the subject of psychoanalytic education and institutional structures. Reeder traces the historical aspects of psychoanalytic education from its Viennese roots through the beginning of formal requirements in the Berlin Institute and the establishment and splits within the British (London) Institute during the Second World War. The postwar ascension of the medical psychoanalytical model in the American Psychoanalytic Association is also described.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Freud's founding of the Vienna school of psychoanalysis was later enriched by Carl Jung (Switzerland), Sandor Ferenczi (Hungary), Karl Abraham and Melanie Klein (Berlin), and Ernest Jones, Edward Glover, and Anna Freud (England). Although Sandor Rado and Otto Rank had come earlier to the United States, psychoanalysis in North America didn't thrive until the 1940s, when a number of prominent Jewish analysts emigrated to the northeastern United States because of fascist persecution in Europe.
Psychoanalysis had its beginning in Canada a decade later than in the United States. After World War II, a number of Canadian psychoanalysts who had trained in England, France, and the United States returned, initially to Montreal and then to Toronto. This mosaic of psychoanalytic backgrounds brought about the practice, teaching, and integration of many theoretical models and techniques. The resultant eclecticism has been uniquely characteristic of the Canadian and the Toronto training programs and their institutional structures to the present day (Frayn, 2000). Reeder seems unawar