Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich
The Psychoanalytic Seminar Zurich (PSZ) is a training institute for Freudian psychoanalysis in Switzerland and is recognized nationally and internationally. It offers training in psychoanalysis for adults as well as for children and adolescents and further training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy , also for adults as well as for children and adolescents as well as in psychoanalytic social work .
History of origin
The Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich can look back on an eventful 70-year history.
The "Chränzli"
The history of the development of the psychoanalytic seminar is closely linked to a special feature of Swiss psychoanalysis. As early as 1947, a group of psychoanalysts formed around the psychoanalysts Fritz Morgenthaler , Jacques Berna , Paul Parin and Goldy Parin-Matthèy , who met regularly on Wednesday evenings and cultivated a high level of interest in psychoanalysis.
Grassroots democracy
In 1958 a psychoanalytic seminar for candidates was created, the training of which already differed in essential points from the regulations of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPV): There was no pre-selection of training candidates and their personal analysis was only subsequently - after completion of the training - as a training analysis accepted. Accordingly, the status of training analyst did not exist either. This understanding seemed to correspond to this Zurich group of analysts within the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis (SGP) rather the requirements of psychoanalysis and should prevent schooling of this training.
Reinforced by the institutional criticism and the democratization that the 1968 movement demanded and achieved in many areas, there was in Zurich - as a further specialty of Swiss psychoanalysis - an ever increasing participation of the candidates in the committees and in the design of the seminar. Finally, the assembly of all participants as a collective took over the fate of the seminar and appointed the seminar leader.
Break with the SGP
Over the course of time, conflicts with the SGP arose over structural and political issues, until the collective of participants was locked out of the premises of the seminar in June 1977 and the PSZ and the SGP split up set up his own training institute in Zurich. The PSZ rented its own rooms and became an independent psychoanalytic training institute. In a declaration of intent that was passed by the participants' meeting in 1982, it says: “Through its internal organization, the seminar tries to create a space in which psychoanalysis can be conveyed and experienced in its conflictual and inconsistent nature. This organization is not there to manage knowledge, but its goal is to promote the never-ending process that constantly generates new knowledge. "
Openness and social policy
The open structure of the PSZ and the free access to practically all events enable intensive discussion and personal acquisition of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which is also reflected in the numerous publications that are created by the group of participants and are large in the specialist and general public Gain attention.
Due to its history and its organizational form, the examination of psychoanalysis at the PSZ is not only centered on its clinical aspects, but also on its communication and connection with cultural and socio-political issues and disciplines. So the ethnopsychoanalysis was founded in his environment by Fritz Morgenthaler, Paul Parin and Goldy Parin-Matthèy and continued by Mario Erdheim , Maya Nadig , Florence Weiss and others.
Against this background, publications emerged that critically analyzed established science and dared to question it. For example, a collection of essays with “women's views ” was published under the title When the light is viewed darkly , which showed how much the gender of the researcher influences scientific results.
Award foundation
In the tradition of this understanding, the PSZ donated a prize for interdisciplinary exchange with psychoanalysis on the occasion of its 30th anniversary:
- The Missing Link. The price for psychoanalysis and ...
- An award from the Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich
The prize was awarded for the first time in 2007 and went to Robert Pfaller , cultural scientist from Linz for his book The Illusions of Others. About the pleasure principle in culture .
literature
- The psychoanalytic seminar in Zurich , in Lucifer-Amor: Journal for the history of psychoanalysis. Issue 12th Edition Diskord, Tübingen 1993
- Thomas Kurz: The rise and fall of the Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar from the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis. (PDF), in: Journal for the History of Psychoanalysis. No. 12, 1993, pp. 7-54.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jacques Berna: My way with psychoanalysis. In: Psychoanalysis in self-portrayals. Volume 1/1. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-86099-366-8 , p. 21.
- ↑ Psychoanalytical Seminar Zurich (Ed.): When viewed in light, it becomes dark. Frauensichten (= The Little White Row . Volume 98 ). Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-610-04698-8 .