Responsible for the Future

Psychoanalysis, being an introspective and inward-looking practice, is replete with introspective and inward-looking practitioners. It is likely that this inward gaze was prompted and enhanced by the development of training analyses. These became compulsory in the 1920s and then changed, perhaps in the 1930s, from control analyses, which looked merely at trainees’ blocks in relation to training cases, to become analyses of transference, much like any other analysis.