Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions Legacy, Transformation and Becoming

Introduction

Part 1: On the Origin of Psychoanalytic Organisations

1. On the Origin of Psychoanalytic Institutions in Vienna

Christine Diercks

2. The Origin of Psychoanalytic Institutions and their Compulsion to Repeat: Some Thoughts

Philip Stokoe

Part 2: Infantile and institutionalisation

3. The Role of the Infantile and its Shortcomings in Institutional Events

Bernard Chervet

4. Infantile and Institutionalisation

Jasminka Šuljagić

Part 3: The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Psychoanalytic Institutions. About Stumbling across Otherness

5. Interweavings. Unconscious Singularity, Group Mentality, and Reconstructed History

Bernard Chervet

6. Differentiations and their Reversals

Jasminka Šuljagić

7. On the Defensive Use of Psychoanalytical Concepts

Franziska Ylander 

Part 4: Paths and Figures of Intimacy within Psychoanalytic Rooms and Organisations

8. Fervor, Traces, and Figures of Intimacy

Jasminka Šuljagić

9. When Institutional Disorders Occur instead of the Psychic Activities of Private Intimacy

Bernard Chervet

10. Could there be Destructive Forces vis-à-vis Psychoanalysis, Contained in the Intimate Workings of Psychoanalytic Societies?

Maggiorino Genta

Part 5: Institutional Life in Psychoanalytic Organisations

11. The Many Facets of Authority in Psychoanalytic Institutions

Jasminka Šuljagić

12. A Quick Look at Organisational Issues in European Psychoanalytical Institutions

Franziska Ylander

13. History of the Protocol and the Principle of the French Model Training. Après-coup and Overdetermination of Training Models

Bernard Chervet

Part 6: The Vicissitudes and Maternal Function of Psychoanalytic Organisations

14. Maternal Function of Psychoanalytic Organisations

Jasminka Šuljagić

15. About the Vicissitudes of New Societies

Gábor Szőnyi

Part 7: How Do Different Societies Cope with the Disruption of their Ideals by Wars and Covid?

16. The Shattering of Denials and Disruption of Ideals in the Assumption of Novelties within Psychoanalytic Organisations

Bernard Chervet

17. Ideals, Unconscious Beliefs, and Leadership in Times of Conflict and Covid

Philip Stokoe

Part 8: Psychoanalytic Organisations Caught in the Crossfire

18. Psychoanalytic Organisations Caught in the Crossfire. Group Psychologies Revealed

Bernard Chervet

19. Psychoanalytic Organisations in a Time of Crisis. A Survey Report

Jasminka Šuljagić

Part 9: Rebirth of Psychoanalytic Organisations. Ideal and Reality Then and Now.

20. A Split and a Merger – Experiencing the Dynamics of Reorganisation

Franziska Ylander

21. Rebirth of Psychoanalytic Organisations. Ideal and Reality Then and Now – Exemplified in the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society

Gábor Szőnyi

22. Rebirth of Psychoanalytic Organisations. Ideal and Reality Then and Now, Using the Example of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Christine Diercks

Biography

Jasminka Šuljagić is a training analyst and the former president of the Psychoanalytical Society of Serbia. She is a member and founder of the EPF Institutional Matters Forum, member and former general editor of the EPF Executive Board, and chair of the EPF Archive Committee. She has many presentations and publications in seven different languages.

"Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions: Legacy, Transformation and Becoming is a much needed and remarkable achievement for the understanding of one of the less explored dimensions of our discipline, which at the same time is a central one: our own institutions. Written by a group of the most well known and experienced analysts in this field, this excellent book arrives at a moment when we all need to deepen our insights on how our institutions begun, developed, and must keep alive their vitality and the capacity to continue as a work in progress and continuous transformation."

Cláudio Laks Eizirik, Former President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

"Springing forth from the engagement with the individual psyche, its conflictual and needful nature, the contributions of psychoanalysis in the social realm have been marginalized. Lately, however, the exploration of institutional and societal issues has gradually grown to receive its fair share and equal status. This book, Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Institutions, Legacy, Transformation and Becoming, is a major step in this direction. The topics covered are fascinating and relevant to every major aspect of psychoanalytic institutional and organizational life. It offers a complex tapestry that keenly explores institutional developments, emphasizing their formative stages and historical circumstances, which both fertilize and restrict freedom and creativity. Far from idealizing, these dynamics are explored penetratingly through a psychoanalytic lens and with analytic neutrality. The issues considered are too numerous to list, ranging from the training of candidates to the splitting and rejoining of mature societies. It is equally striking that this important work on group and organizational dynamics is the product of a working group with different styles and backgrounds that succeeds in forming a rich and rewarding whole. It will undoubtedly be a major addition to this growing area of study and exploration."

Shmuel Erlich, Professor (Emeritus), Sigmund Freud Chair, Hebrew University, and Past Chair, IPA Institutional Issues Committee