The exclusionary policies of \u27us and them\u27 in the IPA and psychoanalytic institutes

This article will explore the issues of otherness in the IPA and also consider the local institute level using the example of the British Psychoanalytic Society. According to the IPA it is \u27The world\u27s primary psychoanalytic accrediting and regulatory body, with 10,500 members in over forty-five countries. The IPA works in partnership with its Component Organizations to train, support and network psychoanalysts, developing clinical, educational and research programmes\u27. It is well-known that the history of psychoanalysis is replete with organizational schisms and primary issues of \u27inclusion-exclusion\u27. Who is a real psychoanalyst? "That are the necessary acceptable professional \u27standards\u27? \u27While standards\u27 should be derived from knowledge, they are often derived from power and are often really a mask for power-plays. The others\u27 have included those from both outside and within the psychoanalytic movement. Outsiders include medicine and the universities, psychotherapists, other psychoanalysts and other disciplines. Deviationists ,.vithin the IPA include other schools vvithin the\u27broad church\u27 of psychoanalysis or even just those who don\u27t fit with the proclivities of those in power sometimes rationalized into issues of standards