1 January 1925
Ernest Jones helps Max Eitingon in Berlin to establish the International Training Committee. The committee’s main task is to create international guidelines for the training of new candidates. Their main problem is about whether they should let in ‘lay analysts’ (analysts with no medical training), as Freud and Ferenczi suggest, or not, as several members of the American and German societies argue. The British Society has many lay analysts, but officially Jones objects to its formal legalization.
Photo: Congress Training Committee report, 1932. Even though it is a long time after the original committee, this is the culmination of the work of the committee, i.e. the guidelines they set out to provide.