Psychoanalysis in the university: The natural home for education and research

• Published in: International journal of psychoanalysis Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 623 - 639
• Main Author: Wallerstein, Robert S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Routledge 01.06.2011; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Institute of Psychoanalysis (British); Blackwell
• Subjects: Applied psychoanalysis. Miscellaneous; autonomous psychoanalytic institute within the university; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Health staff related problems. Vocational training; History, 20th Century; Humans; independent psychoanalytic institute; medical school department of psychiatry-affiliated institute; Medical sciences; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis - education; Psychoanalysis - history; psychoanalytic research; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Research - education; Schools, Medical - history; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; United States; Universities - history; United States; Human; autonomous psychoanalytic institute within the university; Health staff; Review; Thaught subject; Psychiatrist; Recommendation; Higher education; University; Psychoanalysis; Scientific research; independent psychoanalytic institute; Psychoanalytic institution; medical school department of psychiatry-affiliated institute; Occupational training; psychoanalytic research

Psychoanalysis as a theory of human mental functioning and a derived therapeutic for disturbed functioning would have its natural home in the university, and Freud gave evidence of harboring such an ambition. But the sociopolitical structure of the early 20th century Austro-Hungarian Empire preclude...