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Applications for the course starting in October 2011 are welcome now.
The LCP has been running a full training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy since shortly after it was founded in 1973.
The strong clinical component of the programme is underpinned by a broad theoretical base and is unusual among psychoanalytic psychotherapy trainings in that it includes Analytical Psychology as an integral part of the curriculum. Students are encouraged to engage with the essential questions of psychoanalytic theory and practice openly and critically.
Applications are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines and working backgrounds.
Trainees who complete the course successfully become members of the LCP and registrants of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Course content
The training includes a number of different areas of study
Theoretical seminars
The Qualifying Course provides a understanding of unconscious processes through the teaching and critical evaluation of the work of the Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations and Jungian schools, with a firm grounding in related clinical technique.
The curriculum has been devised to familiarise the trainee with the theory and practice of each school of thought, presented coherently throughout the length of the training.
Clinical practice and seminars
Trainees see two training patients three- times-weekly: the first for two years and the second for eighteen months, both under supervision They are expected to take on their first training patients during the course of the first year.
Training patients are usually referred to trainees from the LCP Clinic. The LCP also has links with a number of NHS psychotherapy departments who are able to refer patients to see therapists in training.
The seminars from year two onwards reflect this development in practice. They include both the fundamentals of psychoanalytic technique and weekly seminars in which trainees discuss their work with their training patients.
In the third and fourth years, theoretical and clinical seminars deepen theoretical understanding and clinical skills to enable students to work intensively with a range of patients. They focus on such subjects as assessment for psychotherapy, psychotic states, narcissism, borderline personality, pathological organisations, difficulties in thinking, thinking through psychiatric issues in psychotherapeutic practice.
Infant observation
One year of the two-year infant observation course must be completed before commencing the Qualifying Course.In this course, the trainee will observe a baby from birth to two years once a week in the child’s own home. This work is discussed in a weekly seminar group. For further information please click here.
Supervision
Weekly individual supervision is required for both training patients, with LCP-approved supervisors, until qualification.
Written work
Trainees write two papers during the course of their training - an infant observation paper of 5,000 words and a clinical paper of 8-10,000 words on one of their training patients. Short six-monthly reports on both training patients are also written.
Assessment
Assessments are based on reports from seminar leaders, infant observation leaders, supervisors, tutors, and in the case of the final paper, an external assessor. Reports take into account a trainee's grasp of theoretical concepts, and approach to practice, as demonstrated in the various seminars and discussion groups, and in written work.
Prior to taking on the first patient, the personal therapist is asked if there is any objection to the trainee starting clinical work. This is the only time that the trainee's therapist is consulted by the LCP during the training.
Qualification
In order to qualify, the trainee will have demonstrated the capacity to integrate theory and practice and satisfied the Training Committee that he or she is ready to practise independently of supervision. Evidence will also have been given of a commitment to the values set out in the BPC Code of Ethics.
Time commitment
Trainees attend once a week seminars throughout the taught component of the three-year programme. However, the clinical work with two training patients under supervision, which begins some time in the first year, usually continues beyond this time and trainees remain in their own psychotherapy and supervision until qualification. They also attend post-curricular seminars until qualified.
The course runs over three terms per year. Trainees attend on alternate Saturdays from 10am - 5.30pm.
Time commitment also includes personal psychotherapy, infant observation, clinical supervision and written work.
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