Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions

Encompassing diverse perspectives on the psychoanalyst as individual, social being, and member of psychoanalytic institutions, this book provides practical and informed answers to the question of how psychoanalysts can take care of their psychoanalytic institutions.

Gabriele Junkers, PhD, is a psychologist, analyst and training analyst of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV). She can look back on 40 years as analyst and 25 years as training analyst in private practice. She has experience of institutional counselling in various clinical settings, in addition to ethics and gerontology, having worked with psychiatric in-/outpatients and in private practice for 35 years. She was previously a member of the EPF Executive for 15 years and has worked for IPA as a sponsor for developing a new group. She has published books and papers in the field of psychoanalysis, gerontology, and institutional matters.

How this book came to be... 1. The Institutionalisation of Psychoanalysis 2. The Psychoanalyst and his Society 3. Development and Care for a Containing Institution: a Challenge for Psychoanalysts? 4. The Sibling Complex and Sibling Attachment: Implications for Conflict and its Resolution in Psychoanalytic Institutions 5. Reflections on the Institutional Family of the Analyst and Proposing a "Fourth Pillar" for Education 6. Curiosity, Facing Reality, and Resistance Against Structuring Psychoanalytic Organisations 7. Some Dark Sides of Institutional Life and of Institutional Intimacy 8. Psychoanalytic Institutions and How They Will Help Psychoanalysis - If We Let Them 9. Developing, Holding and Containing New Psychoanalytic Groups Looking Ahead