In his closing address to the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies Conference on “Psychoanalysis between Conformity and Contradiction” held in Munich in 1992, the author emphasizes the importance of the training system in promoting the psychoanalyst's sense of responsibility. Appealing to Winnicott's concept of the capacity for concern, he affirms the criticism that the present system opposes this goal by integrating personal development processes, especially the