Comment on Björn Sahlberg’s paper

ABSTRACT

This paper is a comment on Björn Sahlberg’s paper on the function of training analysis in the Swedish psychoanalytic association and discusses some aspects of the candidates’ personal analysis and supervision. The paper further suggests some possible sources for inspiration and perspective on organizational and educational issues, for example taking an interest in the epistemology of professions, in what the concept of ‘reflection-in-action’ could mean in the training situation, or in empirical research about the educational models and the practice of psychoanalysis.

KEYWORDS:

• Training analysis
• reflective practice
• reflection-in-action
• meta-professional view
• impossible profession

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Notes

¹ When ‘Analysis terminable and interminable’ was published in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, the other two were named ‘the bringing-up of children and the government of nations’ (Freud, 1937b, p. 401).

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Johan Berg

Johan Berg is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Malmö, Sweden, and a member of the Danish Psychoanalytic Society. He is also Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden.