New Mission Statement

Our new mission statement says in part:

We think that psychoanalysis should be a discipline of inquiry not an orthodoxy of belief. That is, that our work, on both the theoretical and the clinical level, is distinguished by the questions being asked and not by the answers which may seem to have been found. We believe that answers are inevitably provisional....

Want to read the whole statement? http://www.sectionfive.org/about/

A letter from Paola Mieli

There's an interesting letter from Paola Mieli posted in our Essays section.

She says: "There is no way to shortcut the process of analysis. The making of an analyst --a formation, more than mere education and training-- involves a process much more rigorous, unique and complex than the one outlined by the Consortium's proposal. The required minimum of 3 analytic sessions per week is in no way a guarantee of "depth and intensity," as the Consortium naively puts it.

For the complete text go to http://www.sectionfive.org/comment/5/17/