The early 1950s were a time of growing disagreements within the SPP, mainly centred on the question of the training of analysts [REF].
Unfortunately an unexpected by-product of the split was to deprive the new group, who termed themselves the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP), of membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), to which they now had to seek out affiliation [REF].