Educational Components for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Training Programs
IASP is offering two training streams, one in
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy and one in Psychoanalysis. Candidates may apply for the
particular stream that most suits their needs and may apply to change
from one stream to another. The following is a list of the components
and requirements for each stream:
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Stream
Basic Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
- Two year seminar program in psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique
- Clinical Supervision
- Two supervised treatment cases. At least one of those cases must be seen two times per week. Cases should be one of each gender.
- One case shall be supervised weekly for eighty hours and the other case will be supervised weekly for forty hours. Supervisors must be approved by IASP.
- Personal Therapy Requirement:
Candidates are expected to participate in a minimum of two times per week
psychotherapy with a therapist whose theoretical orientation is compatible
with IASP.
Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
- Completion of the basic two year program
- Advanced two year seminar program in psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique
- Supervision of one additional case seen two times weekly;
Supervision duration of 40 hours
- Personal therapy as above
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Psychoanalysis Training Stream
- Academic Program Requirements
- Basic two year seminar program
- Advanced two year seminar program
- Clinical Supervision
- Candidates will complete three psychoanalysis cases selecting cases to fulfill the gender requirement. All cases shall be seen a minimum of three times per week.
- One case shall be supervised for a minimum of eighty hours and the other two cases for a minimum of forty hours each. Supervisors must be approved by IASP.
- Personal Therapy Requirement:
Candidates shall be in psychoanalysis for a minimum of three times per week with an analyst approved by IASP.
- Final Paper:
A final research/clinical paper demonstrating the candidate's understanding of the material covered over the four years. Candidates are encouraged to present their material at a scientific meeting as part of their graduation.
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Curriculum - 2 Year Psychotherapy Training Program
Year One
Weeks 1 - 14: Seminar: Self Psychology: Concepts and Techniques
- An outline and introduction to self psychology
- Heinz Kohut, self psychology and its beginnings
- Empathy, selfobjects and the selfobject experience
- The selfobject transferences
- Empathic inquiry and empathic attunement
- The disruption and repair sequence
- The trailing/repetitive and leading/reparative edges of the transference
- Building the therapeutic relationship
- Affects, tracking and attunement
- Optimal responsiveness vs. optimal frustration/ - responsiveness and the experience of the self
- De-centering
- Countertransference
Weeks 1 - 7: Seminar: The History and Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Provide a grounding in Freud and other major contributors to psychoanalysis
- Show how these contributors are or are not forerunners of self psychology
Weeks 8 - 14: Clinical Seminar
- Week 8: Intensive Psychotherapy - moving from one session per week to 2 or more sessions per week
- Week 9 - 14: Use clinical vignettes from the literature, from the instructor and from students, to illustrate the theoretical material being studied in "Self Psychology: Concepts and Techniques"
Weeks 15 - 21: Seminar: Intersubjectivity Theory
- Fundamentals of intersubjectivity theory
- Intersubjectivity, transference, and the unconscious
- Organizing principles
- Structures of pathological accommodation
- Practicing intersubjectively
Weeks 15 - 21: Continuous Case Seminar
Weeks 22 - 28: Seminar: Dreams and Trauma
- Working with dreams (4 weeks)
- Trauma (3 weeks)
Weeks 22 - 28: Continuous Case Seminar
Year Two
Weeks 1 - 7: Seminar: The Development of the Self (1)
- Attachment theory: introduction and history
- Overview of the history, important findings and contributions from infant research
- Development and organization of the self: mentalization and affect mirroring
Weeks 1 - 7: Continuous Case Seminar
Weeks 8 - 14: Seminar: The Development of the Self (2)
- Application of infant research to clinical practice with adults
- Procedural memories and processes and nonverbal communication
- Affect regulation
- Shame
Weeks 8 - 14: Continuous Case Seminar
Weeks 15 - 21: Seminar: Self and Motivational Systems Theory
- Introduction to self and motivational systems theory
- Clinical technique from the perspective of self and motivational systems theory
Weeks 15 - 21: Continuous Case Seminar
Weeks 22 - 26: Seminar: Relational theories
- History and background to relational theory and psychoanalysis
- Important concepts in relational theory
- Mitchell and Aron
- Hoffman and other relational authors
- Applying relational theories to clinical practice
- Comparing self psychological and relational approaches
Weeks 27 & 28: Seminar: Review and Integration
Weeks 22 - 28: Continuous Case Seminar
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