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The group consisted of seven participants from Germany, two from Hungary and one each from Denmark, Israel, England and Norway.
The precirculated papers formed an excellent frame of reference for group discussions.
The first topic was the reporting versus the non-reporting analyst; the difficulties in termination of the analysis with a reporting analyst as a representative of the Institute's super-ego (Ausbildungs-Überich) were discussed. There seems to be a preference among the group members for the non-reporting analyst arrangement and the therapeutic (personal) analysis.
Special problems arise when the pathology of the analysand first appears after the termination of the analysis and after passing the examination. The anxiety of terminating the analysis and the tendency to prolong the analysis were commented upon.
The real anxiety of the candidates towards exposing their viewpoints in the scientific discussions in the societies and the possible infantilization through the hierarchical system in the Institutes, were discussed.
The group was concerned about the splitting mechanisms in the societies, the different fraction buildings and tensions among the parent-analysts which were confusing for the candidates in identity building as an analyst and in growing up.
The tendency of some training analysts to build their own schools and the anslysand's idealization of the analyst as a defence to avoid separation and mourning were also dealt with. When not analysed, this could lead to a dependency of the candidate and further fractions in the society in the future.
The importance of analysing the negative transference in its various aspects as well as the destructive acting-out phenomena, were thoroughly discussed. Was the “rebellion” of the candidates an expression of acting out, or was it an expression of healthy reactions, an example of analyses being better today than earlier? Does the acting out of conflicts of hate and envy in the societies result from a not