Psychoanalytic Training: The Absence of Thirdness: A Review of Impossible Training: A Relational View of Psychoanalytic Education by Emanuel Berman |
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| Authors: | Jonathan H. Slavin Ph.D. and ABPP |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry , Harvard Medical School;2. Division of Psychoanalysis (39) , American Psychological Association;3. Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis;4. Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis , Seattle, Portland;5. Ministry of Health and Israel Defence Forces , Israel;6. Palestinian Counseling Service;7. Moscow Psychoanalytic Society;8. Psychoanalytic Division , China Medical Association |
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| Abstract: | This paper suggests that the concept of “thirdness” has been essential in the evolution of our thinking about the complexity of the clinical process in psychoanalysis. However, the way psychoanalysis has been, and in most places continues to be, taught and organized remains mired in older, binary, and concrete dichotomies—as Emanuel Berman''s recent volume on the subject demonstrates—an “absence of thirdness” that seems to reinforce and enshrine the marginalization of psychoanalysis from the broad quest for the advancement of human knowledge in the western tradition. In the course of developing these ideas, the paper discusses other aspects of Berman's stimulating and, in some respects, controversial, work. |
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