Development of Psychoanalytic Thought & Theory

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Julie Wood, MA
Melissa Stoker, MS

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January 8, 2021 — London: Early middle school

[33 pages]

The best efforts at détente in the British Society produced a training program that was more or less evenly split between teaching from a Kleinian perspective and an Anna Freudian perspective.  As part of this compromise, candidates had to also have at least one supervisor who was not aligned with either side—someone from the “middle group”.  The name stuck (later changed to “Independent Group”).  Of these folks, Winnicott is one of the more widely known.  Sharpe is lesser known, but with a lively, unique teaching voice on learning analysis. 

Winnicott, D.W. (1969) The Use of an Object. IJP, 50:711-716.

Sharpe, E.F. (1930). The Technique of Psycho-Analysis, International Journal of Psycho-Anal., 11:251-277.