Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the World Offer Personal Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training Education and the Profession

<p>In this first-of-kind book senior psychoanalysts from around the world offer personal reflections on their own training what it was like to become a psychoanalyst and what they would like most to convey to the candidate of today. </p><p>With forty-two personal<i> </i>letters to candidates this edited collection helps analysts in training and those recently entering the profession to reflect upon what it means to be a psychoanalytic candidate and enter the profession. Letters tackle the anxieties ambiguities complications and pleasures faced in these tasks. From these reflections the book serves as a guide through this highly personal complex and meaningful experience and helps readers consider the many different meanings of being a candidate in a psychanalytic institute. </p><p>Perfect for candidates and psychoanalytic educators this book inspires analysts at all levels to think once again about this impossible but fascinating profession and to consider their own psychoanalytic development.</p>