1st Edition
The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis Conflicts, Dilemmas, and the Future of the Profession
Foreword by Jay Greenberg
Introduction
Section One: PSYCHOANALYTIC HISTORY
Chapter 1. Freud as Leader: The Early Years of the Viennese Society
Chapter 2. The Splitting of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and the Construction of Psychoanalytic Authority
Chapter 3. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: A Long and Troubled Relationship
Section Two: ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS
Chapter 4. The intolerance of diversity in psychoanalytic institutes
Chapter 5. Psychoanalytic training: The "faculty system."
Chapter 6. Institutional conflicts in Jungian analysis
Chapter 7. Jung, Jungians, and Psychoanalysis
Section Three: PROBLEMS OF PROFESSIONALIZATION
Chapter 8. Psychoanalysis as a profession: Past failures and future possibilities
Chapter 9. The Erosion of Our Profession
Chapter 10. Succeeding at Succession: The Myth of Orestes
Chapter 11. Psychoanalytic Training: Then and Now, The Heroic Age and the Domestic Era
Biography
Kenneth Eisold is a practicing psychoanalyst, as well as an organizational consultant, who has written extensively on the psychodynamics of large systems as well as on the organizational dimension of psychoanalysis and continues to advise and coach. He is Past President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations as well as former Director of the Organizational Program at The William Alanson White Institute, where he trained consultants in working psychodynamically with organizations. He is a Fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute.
"It’s a great book!!!"-Lew Aron and Bob Pyles
"This book needs to be read by psychoanalysts at every level of development, from candidates to institute administrators. Eisold brilliantly makes the case for the powerful presence of so many institutional and social formations in our every theoretical and clinical move. Psychoanalytic theory and practice is saturated with social process, institutional practices and ideologies. Much of the material in these chapters is painful and challenging to encounter. But Ken Eisold writes in a welcome and deft manner and the lessons he wants to teach us and that we must learn, arrive in a deeply accessible form."-Adrienne Harris, New York University, Editor of The Relational Perspectives Book Series.
"This book contains many brilliant insights into the origins and nature of the ills besetting contemporary psychoanalytic institutions. Ken Eisold has a unique and profound understanding of individual and collective psychology and of organisations. His work also offers helpful lessons from the past and the present which should not be ignored."-Douglas Kirsner, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University; Honorary Member, American Psychoanalytic Association. Author Unfree Associations: Inside Psychoanalytic Institutes.
"Kenneth Eisold has long been one of the most astute and insightful observers of the institutional problems of psychoanalysis. He is one of the few psychoanalysts who easily bridges the gap between a profound psychoanalytic knowledge of individuals, and that of groups. Eisold clearly illustrates our similar struggle to free ourselves from the confines of our founders, and to bring psychoanalysis into the modern age."-Robert Pyles, former head of APsaA.
