The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is pleased to offer a two year certificate course in advanced psychotherapy. The philosophical underpinning of program is the belief in the co-constructed nature of human growth. The organizing principle for the program is its focus on the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Instructors utilize the richness and diversity of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives in teaching. Providing meaningful psychotherapy involves considerable self knowledge, sturdiness, and learning. The program emphasizes the importance of one’s own personal treatment, supervision, case conferences, and seminar discussion.
Overview
The academic year is divided into two 16-week semesters scheduled to begin in September, 2010. Within each of these two semesters, courses will be usually 8 sessions, but may be broken into smaller segments. There will be two didactic seminars each Monday evening (from 6:30-7:45 and 8:00-9:15p.m.) and bi-weekly case conferences every other Thursday from 6:30-8:00p.m. All classes are held at SPSI. The classes and case conferences provide a supportive environment in which to learn and grow as a therapist while allowing the student to form a peer group of potentially lifelong professional relationships.
Personal Psychotherapy
Perhaps the deepest and most profound learning and experiencing occurs through having one’s own personal therapy, preferably analysis. The program recommends but does not require students have a personal experience of psychoanalytic therapy or psychoanalysis, concurrently with the doing the program.
Supervision
The program recommends though does not require that each participant have weekly supervision on their psychotherapy cases. Time, locations, and fees of supervision will be individually arranged. A number of faculty have agreed to see CAPP students at a reduced supervisory fee. The program will assist students in making arrangements for reduced fee supervision if requested.
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