A Parapraxis for Our Times: A Proposal Designed to Address Our Current Failure to Recognize and Specify Clinical Differences and the Threat to the Training and Future of Psychoanalysts it Poses

David TuckettDavid Tuckett, Robert Schuman Emeritus Professor of Decision-Making, University College London, Visiting Fellow, European University Iity Institute, and Distinguished Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Published online on February 28, 2026

Abstract

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“Pluralism” makes it difficult for psychoanalysts to know how far what they do in their consulting rooms is different or not to what others who call themselves psychoanalysts do. A consequence is that it is now hard for “psychoanalysts in training” to ...