Foundation Course in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Part One: Qualifying course in psychodynamic psychotherapy (ref. D58)
This course introduces and stimulates interest in a psychoanalytic way of thinking about clinical work. It also provides students with an opportunity to explore whether they may wish to pursue further training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.
Who is this course for?
This 2 - 3 year training programme presents an important opportunity for health service, statutory service and voluntary service workers to gain an initial training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
This course is for you if you work in the helping professions and want to begin to train as a psychotherapist using psychoanalytic principles.
Content/Teaching components
Year 1 and 2
Supervision
Clinical seminar
Lectures
Workshops
Tutorial advancements
Year 3
The third year is for those students wishing to submit a dissertation for an MA and has less formal teaching. In the first term there are 4 seminars on writing a dissertation. In the second term the student works on the dissertation and will have meetings with their dissertation supervisor. The dissertation is due for submission in the third term.
Lecture Topics Overview
Year 1
What is Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
The Setting for Psychotherapy
The Unconscious and dreams
Transference
Countertransference
Reading culture, interpreting difference
Freud’s Notion of Sexual Instinct
Little Hans
The Oedipus Complex
The Ego & Narcissism
Destructiveness
The Structural Theory
Anxiety
The Ego & Defences
Infant Development:
Mourning & Melancholia
Depressed States
Intercultural views on depression
The Rat Man
Obsessional States
Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Perversion and Perverse States of Mind
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Psychopathology
Separation and breaks
Year 2
Introduction to Melanie Klein
The Oedipus Complex in Kleinian thinking
The Depressive Position
The Paranoid Schizoid Position
he Negative Therapeutic Reaction
Envy and Destructiveness
The Internal Racist
Winnicott and His Place in Psychoanalytic Thinking
The Baby and the Holding Environment
Transitional Phenomena and Play
The Clinician’s Debt to Winnicott
Attachment Theory Lecture
Competing paradigms
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and CBT
Trauma: a dynamic perspective<
W.R. Bion
Rosenfeld & Pathological Narcissism
John Steiner’s Notion of Psychic Retreat
The Oedipus Complex and Mental Space
The work of Betty Joseph
Workshop Programme Overview
On Ethics
On Listening
Baby Observation
Learning from group experience
Different types of transference
On the effectiveness of psychotherapy; research and findings
Framing interpretations
On the psychopathology of eating disorders
Review of cases; from assessment to outcome
On endings
Closing date
26th June (late applications may be considered).
Professional accreditation
If you successfully complete the two years of the Foundation course, you can progress on to the Intermediate Clinical Course in Intercultural Psychotherapy (Ref. D59).
From this, it is possible follow the Advanced Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Ref. M1) which is a high level qualification in intensive psychotherapy.
Time commitment
The course takes place on a Wednesday (11.15am or 12.30pm to 4.45pm or 6.15pm) and consists of 3 or 4 taught components on a weekly basis, over the 3 academic terms of the first two years.
This is in addition to seeing patients and attending personal therapy, neither of which activities conform to our academic terms.
Students should not assume that all the course requirements can be completed in one day.
Entry requirement
Students should be in personal psychotherapy or intending to embark on this.
Other centres of study
Leeds (Ref. D58L)
Course tutors: Susie Godsil and Sue Stewart Smith
