About Us
The Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology offers a
training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with
a particular emphasis on the psychoanalytic theory and clinical
techniques of contemporary self psychology. The program has been
developed and scheduled to be able to include candidates who live
outside the Greater Toronto Area.
About the Training Program
The program consists of theoretical and clinical seminars (weekly
Tuesday evening classes and monthly Saturday seminars),
supervision of cases in treatment and personal
psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Clinically, the educational focus is on
the study of subjective experience and intersubjective phenomena. The
treatment approach emphasizes the techniques and skills of sustained
empathic enquiry. From this perspective, close attention is paid to the
state of the self, to the patient's experience of the therapist, (the
transference) and to the therapist's experience of the patient, (the
countertransference). The detailed study of the therapeutic relationship
as it unfolds, especially the recognition and management of disruptions
due to empathic errors, is a central focus in supervision and clinical
discussions.
The core curriculum begins with an overview of psychoanalysis, from
Freud through many of the post-Freudians. We then focus on the
emergence and development of the self psychological approach from the
traditional psychoanalytic theories, beginning with the study of Kohut's
writings and proceeding to the contributions of others such as
intersubjectivity, motivational systems, specificity theory, attachment
theory, relational psychoanalysis, and other schools contemporary
psychoanalytic thinking. Specific attention is paid to gender, trauma,
dreams and developmental theory.
Upon graduation, students will receive diplomas recognizing their
level of training and become eligible to join the Institute for the
Advancement of Self Psychology and to proceed to more advanced
training.
For more information on IASP's training programs, please visit the
"Training Programs" section of this site.
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Objectives of Training
Basic psychotherapy program:
At the completion of their training, candidates should be capable of
treating a wide range of clients using the principles of psychoanalytic
self psychology. Through their training, candidates will become able to:
- Appreciate the need to maintain an appropriate therapeutic ambience
- Recognize and respond optimally to the manifestations of selfobject
transferences
- Recognize and understand their own
countertransferences
- Understand the evolution of the self from a
developmental perspective
- Place the ideas of self psychology within the context of other schools
of thought - psychoanalytic, historical and social
- Develop their own independent thinking
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IASP Board
Midge Breslin*
President
Sonia Singer*
Vice President & Student Progress Chair
Alan Kindler*
President Emeritus, Curriculum Chair, Chair of Conference Committee
Helene Brodziak
Secretary & Coordinator of Self Psychology Study Group
Margaret Amerongen
Community Development Chair
Bruce Herzog*
Member-at-Large
Marsha Hewitt
Member-at-Large
Dan Perlitz
Treasurer
David Wright*
Admissions Chair
Cathy Martin
Post Academic Representative
Sue Findlay
Seminar Coordinator
* Executive Committee member
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Founding Members
Clarissa Barton, MB, FRCP(C)
Janet Cleghorn, MSW, CSW
Hazel Ipp, PhD
Sam Izenberg, MD, FRCP(C)
Alan Kindler, MBBS, FRCP(C)
Ellen Lewinberg, BSW, Dip.PSW, CSW
Judith Levene, MSW, PhD
Ophelia MacDonald, MD, FRCP(C)
Sandra Palef, PhD
Gary Rodin, MD, FRCP(C)
Gary Taerk, MD, FRCP(C)
Peter Thomson, MB, FRCP(C)
Elizabeth Tuters, MSW, CSW
Mary Wright, MBchB, FRCP(C)
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Advisory Board
Doris Brothers, PhD
Mark Gehrie, PhD
Joseph Lichtenberg, MD
Jean Baker-Miller, MD
Andrew Morrison, MD
Anna Ornstein, MD
Brenda Solomon, MD
Marion Tolpin, MD
Paul Tolpin, MD
Ernest Wolf, MD
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Faculty
Taras Babiak, MD, FRCPC
Midge Breslin, MEd
Rukhsana Bukhari, MD, FRCPC
Art Caspary, PhD, ClinicalPsych
Janet DeGroot, MD
Bruce Herzog, MD
Hazel Ipp, PhD
Sam Izenberg, MD, FRCP(C)
Rex Kay, MD, FRCPC
Alan Kindler, MBBS, FRCPC (Director)
Judi Kobrick, PhD
Jack Kohl, MD
Judith Levene, PhD
Josh Levy, PhD
Ellen Lewinberg, BSW, MSW (equiv.), CSW
Elliott Markson, MD, FRCPC
Clare Pain, MD
Sandra Palef, PhD
Garry Powell, MD
Gary Rodin, MD, FRCP
John Sloane, MD, FRCPC
Gary Taerk, MD, FRCPC
Elizabeth Tuters, MSW, CSW
Patricia White MD, FRCPC
Brent Willock, PhD
David Wright, BA, MDIV
Mary Wright, MBChB, FRCPC
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Who May Apply?
The four year training program is designed for mental health professionals whose major
interest is individual psychotherapy. The admission process will take into account academic
qualifications, emotional resources and capacity for empathy with others. Applicants will
be expected to have an understanding of their own psychology and of the psychoanalytic process.
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Fees
Application $250.00 (non-refundable)
Classes: $3,500.00 per year
Supervision: by private arrangement
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