Contents

Foreword by Jay Greenberg ix

Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1

PART ONE
Psychoanalytic History 3

1. Freud as Leader: The Early Years of the Viennese Society 5

2. The Splitting of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and the Construction of Psychoanalytic Authority 32

3. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: A Long and Troubled Relationship 55

PART TWO
Organizational Analysis 83

4. The Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes 85

5. Psychoanalytic Training: The “Faculty System” 111

6. Institutional Conflicts in Jungian Analysis 130

7. Jung, Jungians, and Psychoanalysis 152

PART THREE
Problems of Professionalization 179

8. Psychoanalysis as a Profession: Past Failures and Future Possibilities 181

9. The Erosion of Our Profession 210

10. Succeeding at Succession: The Myth of Orestes 225

11. Psychoanalytic Training: Then and Now, The Heroic Age, and the Domestic Era 241

Index 257