Interdisciplinary Training in Adult Psychotherapy for Professional Workers in Health and Social Services (ref. M1)
• Are you seeking a career as a Consultant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the public sector?
• Are seeking to develop your skills and your practice in the private sector?
Who is this course for?
This course is for experienced clinicians, with or without a core profession but with a graduate degree. This is a comprehensive training course in the application of psychoanalytic principles, aimed at clinicians committed to the development of psychoanalytic work in the NHS and in the private sector.
Aims
To provide a full Consultant level training in:
• Intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• All the other applications of psychoanalytic psychotherapy including as group and individual therapy, consultancy, assessment, supervision, teaching, management and research.
The training leads to the Tavistock Qualification in Adult Psychotherapy (TQAP) and the qualified individual will be eligible for registration as a Member of the Adult Division of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professionals (TSP). The award of the TQAP together with continuing membership of TSP confers eligibility for registration as a practitioner in work with adults with the British Confederation of Psychotherapists (BCP).
Content/Teaching components
During the first three years students attend an academic programme, which includes theoretical seminars and clinical workshops.
The theoretical seminars offer a comprehensive study of the history of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to all the major contributors to psychoanalysis in Britain (e.g. Abraham, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Rosenfeld) as well as the more recent analysts who have influenced current day practice and thinking. The theoretical seminars also cover the developmental tasks of infancy, childhood, latency and adolescence, personality structure and psychopathology, psychosomatic disorders, theories of depression and anxiety. All aspects of analytic understanding and technique including the Transference, Counter-Transference, free association and dreams are also covered.
The clinical workshops cover all aspects of applied psychoanalytic work including:
Working with groups
Racism in the clinical setting
Refugees and asylum seekers
Working in a changing NHS: perspectives on institutional practice
Trauma, violence, and forensic aspects
Borderline and narcissistic states
Research Supervision
Working with complex clinical cases
Working with Older adults
Alongside a full training in psychoanalytic technique, the curriculum also provides theoretical teaching in other treatment modalities (CBT, IPT, systemic family therapy and couples). Alongside the academic curriculum students undertake a variety of clinical activities, covering the basic requirements of the course but taking into account the student’s interests and background.
Assessment
Participation in lectures, seminars and clinical work is continuously assessed. At the end of the course, students are required to write a dissertation of 10,000 words describing their analytic work with a particular patient/group.
Successful completion of M1 will be based on having completed the course requirements and on the continuous assessment of the student’s level of clinical competence.
Student’s feedback:
‘ I was already quite experienced when I started but the detailed examination of my clinical work was completely new, helping me to really understand what patients bring to therapy and how their communications can be understood. The course has given me a confidence in my analytic technique with patients that I did not have before’
“I started my training as an M1 course associate, having arrived with clinical experience from abroad. The combination of a very fine series of lectures, supervisions and my personal analysis have been decisive in preparing me for the professional opportunities which have opened up for me after qualification” ‘This course has been life changing for me. I now have a second profession as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and have been able since qualifying to work as a consultant in the NHS as well as a psychotherapist in private practice. The combination of the extremely varied clinical work alongside all the theory seminars and workshops (together with my own intensive therapy) means that I now feel powerfully equipped to practice in my chosen profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy’
Closing date
Applications are welcome throughout the year. Students can start the course any term.
Time Commitment
The course takes a minimum of 4 years to compete. The length of the course is tailored to student’s background and interests.
The course takes place on Thursday afternoons from 1.30-6pm. Students also have to allow time for clinical work, supervision and tutorials.
Entry requirement
The course has specific entry requirements for the different student groups (with or without core profession, child psychotherapists and international students).
Please contact Billie Josef, for more information.
After ascertaining that all entry requirements are fulfilled, all prospective students should in the first instance contact Mrs Hiscock , M1 Clinical Tutor, for an informal meeting on 020 8938 2470.
Cost
The course is free of charge for students accepted on a salaried NHS post.
The fee paying students will be charged - £3,350 per annum over 4 years (EU rates) followed by continuation fee until completion of course requirements