This part-time two-year programme provides a rigorous supervised clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy contributing to a professional qualification to practice this therapeutic method with adults.

 

Since its inception in 1984, the programme has significantly contributed to the formation in clinical practice for many psychoanalytic practitioners and other clinicians who benefit from a psychoanalytic influence on their work. It is relevant for any mental health professional, including GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists, counsellors, and nurses. The programme also accepts applications from candidates from other backgrounds who are suitable for the programme based on their own prior experience of psychoanalysis.

• Provides a rigorously supervised clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy contributing to a professional qualification to practice
• Requires engagement in one’s own psychoanalysis, the cornerstone of psychoanalytic practice
• Provides weekly small group and individual clinical supervision
• Provides a rigorous theoretical study of the principles underlying psychoanalytic practice
• Includes participation at a weekly psychiatric case conference at St. Vincent's University Hospital which is a unique teaching forum bringing together psychiatric and psychoanalytic responses to mental illness
• Includes dissertation for experience of research appropriate to the field
• Can form part of a four-year continuous training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy