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IIPT Graduating Class, 2008
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Quotations from Sigmund Freud
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"Anatomy is destiny."
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
(On the process of melancholia): "There is no difficulty in reconstructing this process. An object-choice, an attachment of the libido to a particular person, had at one time existed; then, owing to a real slight or disappointment coming from this loved person, the object-relationship was shattered. The result was not the normal one of a withdrawal of the libido from this object and a displacement of it on to a new one, but something different, for whose coming-about various conditions seem to be necessary. The object-cathexis proved to have little power of resistance and was brought to an end. But the free libido was not displaced on to another object; it was withdrawn into the ego. There, however, it was not employed in any unspecified way, but served to establish an identification of the ego with the abandoned object. Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego..."
"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
A distance learning psychoanalytic training of international scope using the Group Affective Model of learning at IPI
Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education
Training Committee
Jill Savege Scharff (Chair)
Sharon Dennett (Chair-Elect and Dean)
Geoff Anderson (Chair, Curriculum Committee)
Douglas Dennett, (Faculty Selection and Progression Committee)
Robert Rovner (Chair, Candidate Progress)
David Scharff (Liaison to IPI and Chair of Admissions)
Becky Bailey (IIPT candidate representative)
Consultants to the Training Committee
Ted Jacobs MD, Felix Velasco MD, Christopher Bollas, Imre Szecsödy, Roberto Losso MD
Psychoanalytic Training Program Faculty
Geoff Anderson PhD, Nancy Bakalar MD, Betty Benaim MA, Douglas Dennett MD, Sharon Dennett MSW, Bob Rovner PhD, Judy Rovner MSW, Jill Scharff MD, David Scharff MD, Lea Setton PhD, Stan Tsigounis PhD.
Adjunct Supervisors
Christopher Bollas, Max Hernandez, Earl Hopper, Nasir Ilahi, Otto Kernberg, Ted Jacobs, Roberto Losso, Anton Obholzer, Michael Parsons, Randi Paulsen, Imre Szecsödy, Felix Velasco, Vamik Volkan, Paul Williams, Sharon Zalusky.
International Institute Psychoanalytic Training at IPI applies contemporary object relations and other psychoanalytic theories to understanding the analytic pair of analyst and analysand. The analytic training operates within and augments the existing learning matrix of the IPI.
Required Basic analytic curriculum is taught in 1 week-long summer institute in each of three years; 1 weekly seminar in analytic theory and technique on Tuesdays from 2-3:30 pm, except for July and August in years 1, 2, and 3. 1 year of infant observation (see Infant Observation Seminar); and 1 week summer institute in couple, child and family are required and may be taken as prerequisites.
Required leading edge analytic curriculum is taught during 4 IPI weekend courses in years 1 and 2, (analytic candidates studying together in candidate-only small groups and clinical case conferences) and 4 weekend courses in year 3. In Year 4 there is a requirement of 32 hours of participation in various electives.
Electives:
IPI seminar, co-teaching a class, presenting at a continuous case conference.
Together these curricula amount to 600 credit hours of instruction over 3 years of formal lectures, reading seminars, technique and process seminars/case discussion groups, videotape case presentation, infant observation, summer institutes, weekend modules, affective learning groups, feedback and review.
Personal analysis 4-5 times a week for at least 3 years (in person or in person and by telephone).
3 training cases, 4-5 times/week, two cases for two years and one case for one year, each supervised for 40 hours.
Prerequisites:
Graduation from IPI’s 2-year Object Relations Theory and Practice Program program or equivalent; 1 year of infant observation; and 1 couple or family institute (or take after enrollment in the analytic training).
Unique aspects:
1) the right to choose one’s own analyst in any state or country (with approval of the Training Committee)
2) the right to count current or former analysis toward the requirements, as long as there is the required overlap of candidate’s current analysis with training cases.
3) a program for students in remote locations
4) the Group Affective Model of training (see Teaching and Learning Philosophy)
5) faculty who study the process of teaching and learning
What IIPT candidates have said about analytic training at IIPT...
“It saturated my mind and experience—it really took over my life and thinking for three years—and from that place, I felt a depth and breadth of learning from experience that I had not had before.”
“It has changed my life, and it has changed my patients’ lives. Other people knew it before me.”
“I waited ten years for this institute to form because I wanted analytic training to be the kind of challenge that it turned out to be -- not just a cookie cutter academic formula, but the chance to truly stretch and grow as a professional and a person.”
Application
Click on the links below for a full IIPT program prospectus and application:
Program prospectus and application (.doc format)
Program prospectus and application (.pdf format) (This download requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. For the latest version of the Reader, visit this site.)
For more information about the program, prerequisites, exceptions for advanced standing, tuition, and fees, please contact Jill Scharff (Chair) at 301-951-3590, jillscharff@theipi.org.