Courses and Programmes
Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
‘WHAT IS MY CLIENT REALLY TRYING TO TELL ME?'
Learn to listen more deeply in the here and now of the interview.
The VAPP invites you to participate in our “Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy”, a 32-week course of readings and case discussions in a small group setting, focussing on:
- The Development of the Personality: The mind that contains and processes experience; the emergence of a sense of self
- Understanding Trauma: When experiences are beyond the container's capacity to contain
- Psychopathology: When dysfunction becomes entrenched
- The Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: What can be done when containing and processing are inadequate to the challenges of experience?
This course is suitable for professionals who are interested in developing some understanding of how psychoanalytic therapy takes place and who are currently seeing clients or patients. It usually commences in March each year. Applications normally close in mid December, but late applications may be accepted depending on places being available. An early bird rate, payable in full, usually by mid February, is generally offered.
When and Where
Time: Wednesdays 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Venue: 18 Erin Street, Richmond.
Cost: $2,400* (incl. GST) payable in instalments. An early bird discount is available. Deposit payable on acceptance.
*Anticipated cost for 2012 - adjusted each year to account for CPI and similar increases.
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Training Programme in Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The VAPP Training Programme is a four year clinical training programme for psychotherapists and includes personal therapy, clinical supervision, infant observation, theoretical and clinical seminar participation and the writing of a clinical case paper among its components. Intakes in this programme normally occur every 2 years. The next intake, subject to numbers, is anticipated in 2013. We will
announce further developments, including the expected course fees payable, on this website during 2012. The components of the programme are elaborated upon in the following five points:
1. Personal Psychotherapy
The VAPP sees personal psychoanalytic psychotherapy as the cornerstone of the training of a psychotherapist, so it is considered essential that therapy continue concurrently with training, with sessions at least twice weekly in frequency. A personal experience of psychotherapy is valuable on many levels. In a psychotherapy training, it is the personal therapy above all which enables one to make optimal use of what is learnt from one's own experiences, past and present, in the work with patients. There are specific criteria which need to be met when considering the therapy component of this training. These can be discussed further by contacting the Secretary for New Applicants (see last page for details). Since personal psychotherapy is a training requirement, a trainee's therapy is not rebatable by Medicare (in accordance with Australian Health Insurance Commission policy).
2. Supervision and Clinical Work
VAPP trainees work with several patients in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy during the course, and have weekly individual supervision. The trainees are required to see two cases each of which will require its own dedicated supervision. One case is expected to run for at least one year and the other for at least two years and each patient is to be seen at least twice per week. The choice of a supervisor, like the choice of a personal therapist, needs to be discussed with a member of the Training Committee.
3. Seminar Programme
Seminars are conducted twice weekly for one and a half hours for the first four years of the training with continuing seminars until completion of the clinical paper. View an example of the first year seminar programme (PDF format).
a) Theoretical Seminars
As much as possible, the VAPP Training Programme attempts to provide trainees with a knowledge of the work of some of the major theorists who have contributed to the evolution of psychoanalytic thought, in something like chronological historical order. The emphasis in the seminars is upon how the theoretical ideas apply in the clinical setting.
b) Infant Observation Seminars
Each trainee observes a baby-and-mother (or care giver) dyad regularly for at least a year and records and reports these observations at a weekly seminar over that year. This experience is invaluable in developing powers of observation of emotional states (especially those expressed non-verbally) and also in deepening knowledge of emotional development in the interpersonal space. A seminar leader helps the trainees at all stages of this process. At the end of the observation each trainee will be expected to write a paper on their thoughts and experiences of the observation of 2,000 words or more.
c) Clinical Seminars
During the first year, trainees participate in a work discussion group in which they present their current clinical work. In subsequent years in the clinical seminars they present work with their training cases.
4. Case History
The writing of a case history (6,000 to 10,000 words long) is a training requirement and gives an opportunity to learn to develop and to express the thinking about this work.
5. Assessment
Throughout the training, there is a regular process of evaluation to monitor a trainee's situation.
Applying for the VAPP Training Programme
Prospective trainees are required to have one of the following prerequisites:
- Medical graduates with at least two years of approved clinical experience after graduation.
- Clinical psychologists who are eligible for membership of the Australian Psychological Society and who are eligible for State Registration as Psychologists, and who have had at least two years' approved clinical experience.
- Social workers with at least two years of approved clinical experience after qualification.
- Professionals in these or other fields who have achieved the necessary standards, as judged by the Training Committee.
If you do not have the required prerequisite experience and you wish to apply for special consideration, please contact the Secretary for New Applicants for further advice.
Applications for the Training Course are welcome at any time and applicants are assessed by interview for personal suitability, professional experience and situation. If you are considering an application for this training at a future time or wish to make further enquiries, please contact:
Mr Harry Nazikian
Secretary for New Applicants
Tel: 9894 8437
Email: hnazikian@vtown.com.au
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Mailing address:
Secretary for New Applicants, VAPP
18 Erin Street
Richmond VIC 3121 |
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