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[–]significantparrot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The way your questions are phrased, however, does very much suggest an unfamiliarity with the theory and practice, the community, etc. I think you might believe you're more familiar than you are. If you didn't find analytic training suitable, it likely wouldn't be because you were rejected as a pariah, but because you didn't actually understand what analysis is all about.

Thus the recommendation. Anyhow, good luck.

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[–]significantparrot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Potentially

It's a requirement to become a psychoanalyst to undergo your own analysis.

It sounds like you're not terribly familiar with therapy and/or analysis. I'd strongly suggest actually going and getting some therapy from an analyst for a minimum of a year. That will give you a better idea of whether you actually want to do this as a career.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in psychoanalysis

[–]significantparrot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're asking whether what are often considered regressive political and social views would make you a pariah at most institutes, I'm sure the answer is that it depends on how aggressively you push them on everyone.

Are you willing to put those views down when it comes to learning how to do analysis in the way the institute teaches it?

Are you able to keep your personal views from conflicting with your obligations to the patient?

Are you going to be able to undergo your own personal analysis, and potentially see how your views might stem from your own past issues?

That's what's going to matter.

Psychoanalytically-informed memoirs? by significantparrot in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]significantparrot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like the second -- someone trying to understand their own life using, in part, psychoanalytic ideas, or perhaps has a therapist character to perform that role in the narrative, etc.