Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society
Introduction
Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society is a professional, scientific association of psychoanalysts operating in Hungary, which guarantees the high professional standards of its members, in accordance with international criteria. The society plays an important role in the Hungarian professional community, its training courses meet international standards and its yearly conferences are attended by 300-400 people. Lélekelemzés (Psycho-analysis) is a journal of the Society, launched in 2006 and published twice a year. The journal is of interest not only to the psychoanalytic community but also to professionals who are curious about where psychoanalysis is today. There is rich and flourishing scientific and organisational life in the society, run by several committees: Educational Board, Conference Organising Committee, Outreach and Inreach Committees, Ethics Comittee.
Members, Candidates
117 members, 18 candidates
Short History
The Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society was founded in 1913 under the leadership of Sándor Ferenczi. The founding members are representative of the interdisciplinary openness characteristic of the Hungarian psychoanalytic movement at that time. The intellectual movement represented by the Hungarian analysts of the time is called the Budapest School (of psychoanalysis), which is considered one of the defining schools of psychoanalysis, and which was completed in the further work of the emigrants. The Soviet takeover of power and politics was accompanied by an ideological shift: psychoanalysis became the enemy in the eyes of the ruling regime. To prevent the forced dissolution of the NGOs, the society declared its self- dissolution in 1948. This severed the organisational link with the IPA; the remaining analysts were listed as 'direct members'. In the 1960s, psychoanalysis gradually re-entered the professional-social public sphere. Preparatory negotiations started with the IPA in 1969 and led to an agreement in 1975, when the Hungarian group became an IPA Study Group, then Provisional Society in 1983, and finally gained the Component Society status in 1989. In this year the law on associationsand societies was passed in Hungary, so that the legal and legitimate Hungarian Psychoanalytic Society could be established.
Founded in 1913
Disbanded in 1948
Study group since 1975
Provisinal Society since 1983
Component Society since 1989
Training Institute
Training also in psa. psychotherapy
Eitingon model
The tasks and programs of the training both for future psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists are run by the Training Committee of the society in accordance with the Eitingon model. For those, who are in training, training analysis and supervision is provided by training and supervising analysts, who also form a task force, and regularly discuss the issues and difficulties of training.
