Sandra Buechler and Victoria Malkin: SHAME IN ANALYTIC TRAINING
Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. She also supervises at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. A member of the editorial board of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, she is the author of Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives: Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting (Analytic Press, 2008). She has written papers on the analyst’s experiences of loneliness, loss, joy, and other aspects of the clinician’s feelings. Victoria Malkin, PhD, LP, is a psychoanalyst in New York. She received her PhD in anthropology from University College London, She completed her psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute and the National Psy...Read More
Otto Kernberg: The Suicide of Psychoanalytic Institutes
Otto Kernberg, meets Das Unbehagen to discuss a shared discontent with psychoanalytic training. Kernberg will share his critique of the analytic training system along with his ideas of an alternate training system that would avoid the worst aspects of the institute model. According to Kernberg, institutes and their training systems combine aspects of two historical modes of knowledge transmission: 1) a guild or apprenticeship model and 2) a religious cult. Psychoanalytic institutes combine aspects of both ancient models. Key to both is the typical designation of certain analysts as “training analysts” resulting in the creation of a privileged priesthood within the institute hierarchy and all the regressive dynamics that entails. In place of this model, Kernberg calls for a rein...Read More