Educational Components for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Training Programs
IASP is offering two training streams, one in
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy, a two-year option and one in Psychoanalysis,
a four-year program. 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
The following represents the basic outline of the 2-year
psychoanalytic psychotherapy training program. Changes may be made in
the basic outline from time to time over the course of the 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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