Application Information
The VPSG analytic training program has been approved to offer accredited training through the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), which qualifies graduates for full membership in the IPA. IPA membership provides portability of credentials as a psychoanalyst with IPA Societies and Institutes around the globe and full membership in VPSG. Currently with a membership of over 12,000 members and 70 constituent organizations worldwide, the IPA was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud and is the world’s primary accrediting body for psychoanalysts.
The Vermont training program has a tripartite model with three distinct components: didactic seminars, supervision and a personal analysis. The didactic seminars are designed to teach the history, the theories and the technical developments in psychoanalysis and are organized over four years with weekly evening seminars. Clinical skill is developed through individual supervisions with training analysts; continuous case conferences within the institute and clinical case conferences with visiting analysts. A requirement of three continuous cases in psychoanalysis with three separate supervisors meeting weekly for a total of five years of treatments constitutes the clinical portion. The center of the training is a personal analysis at the four times per week level with an IPA approved Training Analyst. Optimally this analysis would begin at least a year prior to formal training and continue throughout the course of the formal program.
Training is designed to be intensive and comprehensive with an emphasis on learning how to work with the unconscious. We believe that such learning is based in knowledge of the development of ideas in our field as well as one’s own emotional and intellectual growth. Creative thinking and a willingness to question oneself will be emphasized. The program will cover the development of and contemporary thinking in a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives, of international scope, including but not limited to: Classical Freudian, the work of the British Object-Relationists, American Ego Psychology, Self-Psychology, and Relational, French, Lacanian and Latina American. Contemporary Psychoanalysis draws on the theoretical developments internationally to create a psychoanalytic field that is both broad and deep.
Applicants should typically possess either a graduate degree in a mental health field or a medical degree. Applicants must be licensed to practice independently in the mental health field. Applicants are required to be in psychoanalysis at the time of submitting an application with a training analyst or seek a waiver from the VPSG Training Committee. The training requirement for a personal analysis is a minimum frequency of four times per week. Class size will be limited.
While a new class will not be admitted this year, there is considerable preparation and study that can be done in advance of the formal training.
We suggest that if you are considering training in your future, you contact one of us to discuss the possibilities and a working timeline for preparations.
We will also hold a meeting in the spring for any interested colleagues to attend to learn more about IPA training in Vermont.
For more information about training, contact the Training Committee via the links below.
Mina Levinsky-Wohl
Sharon Williams Dennett
Johanna Boyce
The Vermont training program has a tripartite model with three distinct components: didactic seminars, supervision and a personal analysis. The didactic seminars are designed to teach the history, the theories and the technical developments in psychoanalysis and are organized over four years with weekly evening seminars. Clinical skill is developed through individual supervisions with training analysts; continuous case conferences within the institute and clinical case conferences with visiting analysts. A requirement of three continuous cases in psychoanalysis with three separate supervisors meeting weekly for a total of five years of treatments constitutes the clinical portion. The center of the training is a personal analysis at the four times per week level with an IPA approved Training Analyst. Optimally this analysis would begin at least a year prior to formal training and continue throughout the course of the formal program.
Training is designed to be intensive and comprehensive with an emphasis on learning how to work with the unconscious. We believe that such learning is based in knowledge of the development of ideas in our field as well as one’s own emotional and intellectual growth. Creative thinking and a willingness to question oneself will be emphasized. The program will cover the development of and contemporary thinking in a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives, of international scope, including but not limited to: Classical Freudian, the work of the British Object-Relationists, American Ego Psychology, Self-Psychology, and Relational, French, Lacanian and Latina American. Contemporary Psychoanalysis draws on the theoretical developments internationally to create a psychoanalytic field that is both broad and deep.
Applicants should typically possess either a graduate degree in a mental health field or a medical degree. Applicants must be licensed to practice independently in the mental health field. Applicants are required to be in psychoanalysis at the time of submitting an application with a training analyst or seek a waiver from the VPSG Training Committee. The training requirement for a personal analysis is a minimum frequency of four times per week. Class size will be limited.
While a new class will not be admitted this year, there is considerable preparation and study that can be done in advance of the formal training.
We suggest that if you are considering training in your future, you contact one of us to discuss the possibilities and a working timeline for preparations.
We will also hold a meeting in the spring for any interested colleagues to attend to learn more about IPA training in Vermont.
For more information about training, contact the Training Committee via the links below.
Mina Levinsky-Wohl
Sharon Williams Dennett
Johanna Boyce
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some day into the answer". |
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