A flurry of other demands kept from posting this last little while, but I'm back again. I will be posting some thought provoking quotes from Jung, writing more about therapy and continuing to respond to questions.
A reader asked what is the difference between a personal analysis and a training analysis. In the best of all possible worlds, the differences would be so minor as to be undetectable. But patients and analysts are human and so differences do appear despite good intention.
Basically a personal analysis is analysis undertaken by a person who wants analysis -- not to meet institutional or other requirements. And a training analysis is undertaken by trainees in analytic training centers as part of the requirements of their training. This means that likely they will have at least some contact with the analyst outside of the consulting room in classes, seminars, meetings and the like. Optimally in analysis, extra-analytic contact is limited.
I am not a trainee nor have I been so what I know is based on what I have heard and read in professional publications. Though the training analyst does not have input into the candidate's evaluation in the program, it makes sense, as I have read, that there does often hang over the analysis an awareness for both parties of the status of the analysand, who may be less open than in personal analysis because of the connections with the institute. How big a factor this is of course varies widely.
I'm not sure what else to say on this topic. Those are, broadly sketched, the differences.