Although this scission bore an imprint of pain and struggle, at the same time it represented, for those who carried it forward, the only way of preserving the sense of continuity with themselves and with values that had been shared with their own teachers and, in the past, with many colleagues. Following the IPA Site Visit Committee, appointed for the purpose of investigating the complex dysfunctions of the SPI, the request to form a new Study Group was accepted on 12 August 1992 by the IPA Executive. The first task of the AIPsi was to draft a Statute that reflected the common project of institutional and scientific life, and especially of a training Institute that would best guarantee the training of candidates. This was the first confirmation of our scientific, training and administrative activities. The AIPsi was accepted as a Component Society in the Barcelona Congress.
Full Members contribute according to their specific energies and competencies.
The AIPsi follows a tripartite training model. Candidates are first selected before starting their analysis with a training analyst who they may chose among those available. Their analysis remains totally private and the candidates have no contact at all with the Institute until they are admitted to a second selection after a minimum of two years of analysis. If they are admitted, they start the Seminars organized in classes lasting four years in which an intense study of Freudian texts is integrated with post-Freudian authors. Among AIPsi members there are classic Freudians, Kleinians and Winnicottians, which makes scientific meetings quite lively.