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K Eisold

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PubMed2001

Institutional conflicts in Jungian analysis.

This paper explores how the institutional life of analytical psychology has been beset by its historical and continuing conflictual relationship with psychoanalysis. Stemming from a division in Jung's identity, that of the spiritual seeker and that of a mental health practitioner, the organizations of analytical psychology have repeatedly enacted that division, resulting in an unclear mission and considerable conflict. In England those conflicts have led to schisms; in America they have played out in internal conflicts within training institutes. Examples of areas of conflict are provided, along with suggestions for addressing these conflicts by recognizing them more openly.

Academies and Institutes↗
PubMed1998

The splitting of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and the construction of psychoanalytic authority.

The splitting apart of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, which began in 1941 with the expulsion of Karen Horney, is seen in the context of a concerted effort to establish the professional authority of psychoanalysis on unimpeachable foundations. On the one hand, a core group of young psychiatrists trained abroad, led by Kubie, sought to establish strict standards of training along orthodox lines; following in the footsteps of medical reformers who had established the professional authority of medicine with strict standards for training and credentialling, they opposed their more 'lax' elders as well as revisionists such as Horney and Rado. On the other hand, the refugee analysts fleeing Hitler sought to establish the security and conditions of orthodoxy they had enjoyed abroad, though they were forced to compromise on the issue of lay analysis. Together they expelled the deviants and sought to establish the professional authority of psychoanalysis on the twin foundations of medical standards and Freudian orthodoxy. Anxieties following the death of Freud contributed to this dynamic process. But contradictions between the conflicting demands of these two sources of authority undermined the stability of this alliance and, eventually, contributed to its collapse.

Education, Medical↗
PubMed1997

Freud as leader: the early years of the Viennese society.

The author argues that Freud's leadership of the Viennese reveals continual tension between Freud's need to use the group to develop and promote his own ideas and the need of the group to promote the professional aspirations of its members while maintaining Freud's allegiance. Freud's 'valency' for the role of 'fight leader', in Bion's terms, made him vulnerable to a solution to this dilemma, which both he and his Viennese followers constructed: an unconscious pact in which they sought and rooted out the "enemies' within the movement, that is, those followers of Freud who by questioning his basic concept of childhood sexuality would lend support to the external 'enemies' of psychoanalysis. What was accomplished by this solution was the Society's continuing dependence upon Freud, who felt forced to assume the role of President, against his own wishes, in order to maintain continual vigilance against the internal 'enemies' of psychoanalysis. In this way the Society captured Freud. For his part, Freud gained the continued loyalty of the group through this arrangement. What was lost with this solution, however, was a certain vitality in the Society as it was forced to give up some of the challenging new ideas of its members in order to hold on to Freud as well as avoid the risk of producing a new 'enemy'.

Austria↗
PubMed1994

The intolerance of diversity in psychoanalytic institutes.

Psychoanalytic institutes, as well as other psychoanalytic organisations, historically have been prone to schisms. This paper attempts to seek out the causes for this institutional fragility in an examination of the kinds of anxiety for which these institutions provide--and ultimately often fail to provide--containment. Intolerance of diversity at one end of the spectrum and schism at the other are seen as social defences against often unrecognised forms of anxiety associated with the practice of psychoanalysis. One source of anxiety, arising from the isolation of psychoanalytic work, derives from the contradiction between the analyst's need to belong to a particular school and his need to believe he is fully receptive to the clinical material of his patient. A second source of anxiety derives from the contradiction between his membership in his organizations and his affiliations to the various pairs within which the primary work of psychoanalysis takes place. A third source of anxiety derives from his participation in the culture of psychoanalysis, which sees itself as apart from the world of social reality; psychoanalysts, as a result, devalue and fear the very institutions that connect them with that world.

Academies and Institutes↗