This part-time four-year programme provides professional clinical training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy founded on a student’s engagement in their own psychoanalysis. It launches the student in beginning to practice psychoanalytically under supervision. Clinical supervision is delivered in two modes - small group and individual. The programme fee covers both modes of supervision experience.

The programme’s module content develops understanding of the principles underlying the clinical practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a discipline launched by the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud. The programme content is strongly informed by the work of French Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan (1901 – 1981), whose seminars and writings elaborated Freud’s work.

 

-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.Vincents University Hospital which is a unique teaching forum bringing together psychiatric and psychoanalytic responses to mental illness
- Includes both a research dissertation and a clinical paper testifying to practising psychoanalytically
-Provides a four-year Special Modality Training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which can fulfil ICP psychoanalytic professional body requirements for application for membership