Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training
An in-depth, high-quality professional training in twice-weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy. Qualifies participants to work independently in private practice.
Overview
This is additional and advanced training for qualified psychodynamic counsellors (or other suitably qualified candidates). The course runs every 2 years.
Theory seminars offer candidates a chance to read primary texts closely and in detail — to really experience the depth and richness within the analytic literature and appreciate its profound clinical relevance today.
Course Day (Fridays, Frome)
Theory: 9:30 – 11:00 am
Clinical Seminar: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Applications: 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Personal therapy: twice-weekly with a Wessex CP approved psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Supervision: one hour weekly per training patient
Client work: 1–2 therapy hours per training patient
Proposed Modules (Years 1 & 2)
- •Introductory Lectures
- •Reading Freud
- •Reading Klein
- •Reading Winnicott and Bion
- •Reading Independent and Post-Kleinian Psychoanalysis
- •Reading Jung
- •Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Questions of Social Difference
- •Technique: Transference and Countertransference
- •Psychopathology: Psychodynamic Psychiatry
- •Psychodynamics of Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity
- •Technique: Interpreting Dreams and Free Associations
- •Psychoanalytic Developmental Thinking: in theory and practice