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“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
OUR BACKGROUND
Originating with Freud’s
pioneering discoveries psychoanalysis is continually evolving to the present
day and contemporary psychoanalysis now includes multiple theories and models
of the mind.
In 1966 a group of ten psychoanalysts established the Florida Psychoanalytic
Society, a Society accepted by the American Psychoanalytic Association as
an affiliate member in 1967. A few years later, Gabriel Casuso, M.D., and
Joseph N. Gurri, M.D., were approved by the American Psychoanalytic Association
as the first Training and Supervising Analysts in the new training facility
under the sponsorship of the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.
In 1971 the first Candidates from Florida began traveling to the Baltimore-Washington
area for classes and supervision of cases. Many of the Florida analysts
have also traveled to Baltimore-Washington to teach. All training analyses
and some supervision and classes took place in Florida. In 1992, after twenty
years of collaboration with the Baltimore-Washington Institute arid the
graduation of nineteen Candidates, the Florida Psychoanalytic Institute
began classes in Florida. In December of 1997 the Institute became accredited
by the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.