ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOANALYTIC & PSYCHODYNAMIC SECTION 

Association of Independent Psychotherapists AIP
 
PO Box 1194, London   N6 5PW
T: 020 7700 1911
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W: www.aip.org.uk
Contact Name: The Administrator 

Organisational History

The AIP was founded in 1988 to provide a referral service for the public, support the continuing professional development of its members and offer training and supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Members value the best in theory and practice from across the psychoanalytic tradition. The training is pluralistic and emphasises a historical perspective. The AIP is registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965-1978.

Training Course Selection & Admission

The roots of the psychotherapist's vocation lie in the interplay of innate qualities and personal experience. Each applicant is considered individually, and life and work experience are given greater weight than academic qualifications.
A successful applicant will normally have

•  previous experience of personal therapy
•  completed a counselling training, and experience of working under supervision with people in distress in a paid or voluntary capacity.

The minimum age for participation in the training is 25. We welcome applicants up to 60 years of age. Selection is based on a written application and interviews.

Training Course Requirements

Personal therapy The heart of a psychotherapist's training is his or her personal therapy. A psychotherapist is in a privileged position and it is in the facing of one's own wounds that the integrity and sensitivity to care for others is born. Trainees are therefore required to be in therapy with an experienced psychotherapist at least twice a week from the beginning of the course until qualification. It is expected that they will experience more frequent sessions for a substantial period during their training and will have the experience of using the couch.

Clinical/clients Trainees are encouraged to work with a variety of clients. The frequency and duration of the therapy is determined by the needs of the clients, but one client must be seen for at least 24 months and another for at least 18 months.

Supervision Trainees are required to be in individual weekly supervision and in a small supervision group for a minimum of two years.

Written work Reflective journal at the end of each term.
4 to 6 book reports per year.
At least 3 self-assessments.
Final paper.

Attendance Continuous attendance expected. 

Training Course Assessments, standards, role of training committee

There is continuous monitoring of the trainee's progress by the Training Co-ordinators, and supervisors provide written reports. Several pieces of written work are required throughout the course, including a substantial paper which will demonstrate the student's ability to integrate clinical and theoretical material.
Each student is assigned a tutor with whom they can discuss their progress during the training. The emphasis throughout is on the development of a psychotherapeutic identity as demonstrated through clinical work.

Theoretical orientation

The AIP training in individual psychodynamic psychotherapy follows the unfolding life journey from our present understanding of life in the womb to old age and death. It explores the way in which contemporary psychological perspectives (developmental, clinical and mythological) can facilitate the special attentiveness that allows the personal and collective meanings of the journey to reveal themselves. The training aims to maintain a creative tension between analytical psychology and psychoanalysis. It is pluralistic and emphasizes an historical perspective on analytical theory and practice. The practice of psychotherapy is felt to be a vocation. Throughout the training there are seminars covering a variety of clinical issues including transference/ countertransference, regression, narcissism, schizoid phenomena, depression, suicide, somatization, dreams, the shadow, archetypes, alchemical imagery and individuation. Attention is also given to management and professional concerns. Reading includes papers from a broad range of writers - Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Guntrip, Ferenczi, Searles, Laing, Lacan, Jung, Jacoby, Von Franz, Fordham, Edinger, Stein, Eliade and Hillman. During the first three years of the training there are 30 evenings each year of lectures and seminars, starting in October. The lectures and seminars reflect on the stages of life journey from developmental and archetypal perspectives. Clinical case discussions are held throughout the course. From the fourth year students attend the monthly Pre-Qualification Seminars until they complete the training requirements. During the first three years of the training there are 30 evenings each year of lectures and seminars, starting in October. The lectures and seminars reflect on the stages of life journey from developmental and archetypal perspectives. Clinical case discussions are held throughout the course. From the fourth year students attend the monthly Pre-Qualification Seminars until they complete the training requirements.

First Year

•  The History and Anthropology of Psychotherapy
•  Life in the Womb, Birth, The Mother/Infant relationship Second Year 
•  The Maturational Process of the Infant
•  The Father, Siblings, Childhood
•  Sexuality, Adolescence Third Year * Adulthood, Parenthood Vocation, Midlife Ageing, Death

Accreditation, graduation, membership

Final Assessment of trainees is by the AIP Membership Group. Upon qualification, trainees become Members of the AIP, Ltd

Code of ethics/ethical principals

The AIP Code of Ethics is posted on the AIP website.

Is the organisation accrediting, training or both?

Training

Is the organisation running a low cost scheme?

Yes

Does the organisation offer clincial services?

Yes

Does the organisation have members included in the UKCP national register?

Yes

Other Relevant Information

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