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THE FOLLOWING PANEL WAS part of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society Spring Weekend Conference held from March 30 to April 1, 1990.
Ideally becoming an analyst is always a work in progress. Growth and change continue long after graduation from an Institute. The subject of this panel highlights the discoveries, discrepancies and detours that are encountered along the way.
Although many of us hope for certainties when we begin our psychoanalytic training, sooner or later we are disabused of our illusion. We may set up analytic heros and villains only to learn, as we grow in experience, that these splits were founded on inadequate knowledge. We learn that consistency and consensus rarely exist even under one theoretical umbrella. Inevitably we integrate our work with patients and our personal and theoretical assumptions to form new patterns of understanding.
The process of separation-individuation sometimes proceeds quite out of awareness. Drs. Bromberg, Epstein and White each trace aspects of their professional development with candor and self-awareness. In their contributions that confluence of what was taught, learned and integrated results in three unique statements about the evolutionary process of becoming a psychoanalyst. Dr. Jones serves as panel discussant.