Jungian Training and Being Trained

A Jungian approach to training emphasises the importance of individuation. Yet, most analytic training takes place in institutions with hierarchical cultures. This edited volume investigates the unconscious forces within training institutions worldwide that can undermine the very values these institutions want to help their candidates to develop.

Jungian Training and Being Trained lets in the light on the unconscious forces that shape the training experience of trainees and trainers. It explores and challenges many of the implicit assumptions that influence and fashion the trainings on offer. International contributors, each engaged in the development and delivery of training, examine the various conscious and unconscious beliefs and processes that not only creatively inform, support, and structure the training process, but also undermine or contaminate it.

The aim of training candidates is to enable them to develop into authentic analysts who have learned the competences they need, have developed personally, can use their imagination, and will be safe to work with a range of patients in different environments. While Jungian trainings in different parts of the world will vary in their structures, content, and processes, most will involve a gatekeeping process for admissions, requirements for personal analysis, the study of theory, working with patients in supervision, and to have in place a process of assessment during training until qualification.

The book includes chapters devoted to contemporary training values, the dynamics of selection for training, the role of a training analysis, cross-cultural challenges in trainings, the role of theory in training, diversity, and inclusion, and the personal stories of recently qualified candidates about the pleasures and challenges of their training experiences. Themes running through the book are the potential damage that unaccountable power among the analysts and those who organise training can exercise in our trainings, resistances to change within our training institutes, failures to appreciate cultural differences, and questions of how diverse and inclusive we really are when it comes to our candidates.

This book is essential reading for all those training or trained in analysis. It raises important ideas for the psychoanalytic community to consider and implement to ensure analytic training institutions achieve their aims and offer best practice for trainees and trainers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

About the editors and contributors

1. Methods of training and their relevance in a contemporary world
Evy Tausky, Pia Skogemann, and Jay Barlow

Underlying assumptions about training, obstacle or resource?
Evy Tausky, C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich

How should we train analysts today?
Pia Skogemann, Danish Society of Analytical Psychology

Managing the balance between tradition and progression
Jay Barlow, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

2. The selection and acceptance of candidates for training: Do we get it right?
Jan Wiener and Carolyn Bates

The selection of applicants for training
Jan Wiener, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

The acceptance of applicants for training
Carolyn Bates, Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, USA

3. Training analysis: Squaring the circle
Richard Mizen, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

4. The role and teaching of theory
David Hewison and Nora Swan-Foster

The role of theory in training
David Hewison, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

For the love of theory
Nora Swan-Foster, Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, USA

5. Training at the International Association of Analytical Psychology
Misser Berg and Grazina Gudaitė

The challenges of organising a worldwide training
Misser Berg, Danish Society for Analytical Psychology

The cross-cultural aspects of training
Gražina Gudaitė, Lithuanian Association for Analytical Psychology

6. Assessing progress: What do we expect trainees to know?
Jan McGregor Hepburn, British Psychotherapy Foundation and Richard Mizen, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

7. Unaccountable power and prejudice in our institutes
Catriona Wrottesley and François Martin-Vallas

In a dark time, the eye begins to see
Catriona Wrottesley, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

Empowerment and training
François Martin-Vallas, Société Française de Psychologie Analytique

8. Diversity and inclusion
Jay Barlow, Hellen Mabhikwa, Kathrine Quiller, and Kate Palmer

Developing a diversity and inclusion programme within an analytic/therapeutic training
Jay Barlow, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

Jung’s reconciling symbol—re-imagining racism
Hellen Mabhikwa, Analytical Psychotherapy Training:Birmingham, UK

Class, and its intersection with psychoanalytic training
Kathrine Quiller, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

“Queer subjectivity” as analytic attitude
Kate Palmer, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

9. Fifteen-minute stories about training in the UK
Laura Chaisty, Urvashi Chand, Richard Jenkins, and Sue Tyler

Taking shape
Laura Chaisty, Analytical Psychotherapy Training:Birmingham, UK

The challenges of belonging
Urvashi Chand, British Jungian Analytic Association,London

Labhraím beagán (“I speak a little”)
Richard Jenkins, Association of Jungian Analysts, London

Transcending the shadow of training
Sue Tyler, Society of Analytical Psychology, London

10. Fifteen-minute stories about training from around the world
Shiva Avital, Valentyna Samus, Jelena Sladojević Matić, and Monika Srebro

A process of individuation in Kleinian and Jungian supervision
Shira Avital, British Psychotherapy Foundation, London

My analytic training at the crossroads of cultures in crisis
Valentyna Samus, Ukraine Association of Analytical Psychology and Lithuanian Association of Analytical Psychology

Jungian analysis in Serbia
Jelena Sladojević Matić, International Association of Analytical Psychology

East of the sun, west of the moon—a story of reconciliation
Monika Srebro, Polish Society of Jungian Psychoanalysts

Index

• Edited by Jan Wiener
• Edited by Richard Mizen
• Edited by Catriona Wrottesley