Bureaucracy and creativity: do they make companionable bedfellows?

Abstract

This essay will look at the benefits and weaknesses of the increasingly bureaucratic nature of training structures and processes in the training of Jungian psychotherapists and analysts. The author will draw on her experiences during two different periods of time as Director of Training at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London with observations on and discussion about some of the changes that have evolved. By way of contrast, she will offer some comparisons with developments in the training of Jungian analysts in countries with little or no legacy of an analytic culture. Here, there is a need to professionalize training in Jungian analysis but the attendant growth of bureaucracy can easily come to echo the politics of non-democratic regimes.

Keywords: Ausbildung; Ausbildung im Ausland; Ausbildung im Inland; Bürokratie; Kreativität; bureaucracy; burocracia; burocrazia; creatividad; creativity; creatività; créativité; formación; formación en casa; formación en el extranjero; formation en Grande-Bretagne; formation à l’étranger; formation, bureaucratie; training; training abroad; training all'estero; training at home; training in casa; бюрократия; обучение дома; обучение за рубежом; творчество; тренинг; 创造性; 在国外训练; 在本土训练; 官僚; 训练.