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Stage 3
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)
Theory9:30 – 11:00 am
Clinical Seminar11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Applications2:00 – 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