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Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession
In this first-of-kind book, senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training, what it was like to become a psychoanalyst, and what they would like most to convey to the candidate of today.
With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this edited collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect upon what it means to be a psychoanalytic candidate and enter the profession. Letters tackle the anxieties, ambiguities, complications, and pleasures faced in these tasks. From these reflections, the book serves as a guide through this highly personal, complex, and meaningful experience and helps readers consider the many different meanings of being a candidate in a psychanalytic institute.
Perfect for candidates and psychoanalytic educators, this book inspires analysts at all levels to think, once again, about this impossible but fascinating profession and to consider their own psychoanalytic development.
With forty-two personal letters to candidates, this edited collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect upon what it means to be a psychoanalytic candidate and enter the profession. Letters tackle the anxieties, ambiguities, complications, and pleasures faced in these tasks. From these reflections, the book serves as a guide through this highly personal, complex, and meaningful experience and helps readers consider the many different meanings of being a candidate in a psychanalytic institute.
Perfect for candidates and psychoanalytic educators, this book inspires analysts at all levels to think, once again, about this impossible but fascinating profession and to consider their own psychoanalytic development.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2020
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May 5, 2021
There is a sense of rebellion in reading a book and knowing that you are not the intended reader. I picked up the book because I was very curious about what kind of advice would be given to someone who’s just starting the journey of becoming a psychoanalyst. What full-blown trees have to say to the seeds? Nothing profound apparently, just simple but usually overlooked words of wisdom.
‘Dear Candidate’ the title of the book and the phrase at the beginning of every letter is a constant reminder that I am somehow intruding. But here is the advice I choose to follow: read Freud, be part of a community, find your own voice, be patient with yourself and others, know that theories can be boring and difficult to understand, have a life outside psychoanalysis and most importantly be humble.
Dear reader, take your time reading this book.
‘Dear Candidate’ the title of the book and the phrase at the beginning of every letter is a constant reminder that I am somehow intruding. But here is the advice I choose to follow: read Freud, be part of a community, find your own voice, be patient with yourself and others, know that theories can be boring and difficult to understand, have a life outside psychoanalysis and most importantly be humble.
Dear reader, take your time reading this book.
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