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Information About Eligibility and Requirements
Requirements for Admission
As a Clinical Candidate:
Admission for training in psychoanalysis is based on the Standards of
the American Psychoanalytic Association.
The selection of applicants for clinical psychoanalytic education and
training is based on an assessment of their eligibility and readiness:
prior education, clinical training, clinical experience, aptitude, and
potential for psychoanalytic competence.
Applicants must have graduated from an accredited post-baccalaureate
degree-based clinical mental health educational program. They should
have at least one of the following:
- A medical degree with psychiatric residency training
- A doctoral level degree in a mental health field
- A clinical masters degree (when this degree is recognized as the
highest clinical degree generally obtained within a specific mental
health profession) supplemented by at least two years of additional
didactic and clinical training
For all applicants, this postgraduate education must include, or be
supplemented by, full immersion in an organized didactic curriculum
which includes psychodynamic seminars and which is accompanied by
supervised clinical training experience.
There should be a minimum of 3,000 hours or the equivalent of two
years of full-time mental health clinical experience under weekly
individual supervision. This clinical experience should include some
work with the full range of mental disorders and exposure to inpatient
and emergency mental health care.
There should be at least 60 hours of individual supervision in the
practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy, enabling the applicant to
demonstrate a capacity to establish a therapeutic process and indicating
the applicant's potential for psychoanalytic clinical competence.
Applicants must obtain appropriate licensure or certification and the
insurance necessary for the practice of psychoanalysis in the
jurisdiction in which they intend to practice.
As a Research Candidate (for Non-Clinical Applicants):
The Institute welcomes applications for psychoanalytic training from
medical and non-medical research investigators and scholars, and from
other professionals who seek this training in order to enrich their
scientific, scholarly or other activities.
Training for research candidates involves personal analysis with a
training analyst of this Institute and a curriculum of courses. It does
not include the supervised analysis of patients.
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