Presentation from the IPPP, Moscow, Russia

Specialization (professional re-training) in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
at the Psychoanalytical Faculty of Institute of Practical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (IPPP)

IPPP has been functioning since 1991 and the Psychoanalytic Faculty within the IPPP has been functioning since 1995 and has graduated 5 courses. Our graduates acquire sufficient qualification which enables them not only to work in state and commercial organizations but also to run successful private practices.

A. We provide is not a 'mass' education. Our study groups consist of 6-8 persons.
B. Admittance rules:
1. We admit physicians (with psychotherapeutical specialization) and psychologists (with clinical specialization).
2. For those lacking the above-mentioned education and specialization the IPPP offers the possibility to acquire
- needed knowledge through its basic programme individual selection of courses, with already received education
- taken into account, is possible.
3. Enrollment is executed on the basis of three individual interviews.

C. Educational frame:
1. Duration of study - 3 years. Form of study - full-time tuition.
2. Group studies are conducted 2 times per week and consist of 4 academical hours (1 academical hours = 45 minutes):
a) 2 acad. hours - theoretical seminar;
b) 2 acad. hours - group supervision (or 'behind-the-mirror' consultation, etc.). Accumulated volume of group studies during 3 years - about 750 acad. hours.
3. Simultaneously students implement personal schedules:
a) individual therapy (or analysis) - minimum 200-300 sessions;
b) prolonged supervision of 2 clinical cases - each for no less than a year.
4. Also presumed:
a) individual literature studies;
b) clinical practice.
5. The IPPP runs a psychological consultation and assists students in acquiring clients.

D. Programme contents:
1. The programme includes:
a) client (patient) treatment techniques;
b) setting;
c) types of clinical psychoanalysis and of psychoanalytic psychology depending on pathology level and other factors;
d) supportive and expressive methods;
e) psychotic, borderline and neurotic levels of pathology;
f) Oedipal and pre-Oedipal levels of pathology;
g) transference and counter-transference; h) resistance and defences;
i) psychotherapist's and analyst's tools;
j) prolonged and short-term types of analytic and dynamic therapies;
k) initial, middle and final stages of therapy and analysis;
l) inner conflict theory and compromise formations;
m) psychoanalytic diagnostics;
n) children's development theories;
o) object relation theories;
p) drives theory;
q) Klein's theory;
r) ego-psychology;
s) self-psychology;
t) psychosomatics;
u) theory and techniques of working with objective, narcissistic and pathological types of transference;
v) etc.
2. The programme is fully based on translated literature and includes such authors as: S. Freud, A. Freud, H. Hartmann, R. Spitz, M. Klein, A. Segal, H. Kohut, R. Stolorow, Ch. Brenner, D. Winnicott, B.Joseph, W. Bion, R. Fairbairn, D. and A.-M. Sandler, M. and E. Laufer, F. and R. Tyson, N. McWilliams, D. McDougall, H. Ammon, F. Alexander, M. Mahler, O. Kernberg, A. Green, V. Tahka, B. Moor and B. Fine, R. Wallerstein, H. Parens, E. Ericson, M. Balint, M. Robins, S. Friberg, P. Heinmann, Sh. Ferenci, O. Fenihel, K. Abraham, E. Furman, D. Pines, R. Greenson, L. Wurmser, D. Stern, Sh. Roth, H. Eitchegoyen, H. Nunberg, J. Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalise, T. Ogden, V. Granov, P. Casement, H. Thome and H. Kahele, R. Ursano, M. Kahn, M. Khan, and many others.
A vast number of yet unpublished psychoanalytic works, indispensible for tuition process, have been and are being translated at the School.

E. The teachers (beginning its own shuttle analytical training in Europe 3-6 years ago):
1. All teachers, personal analysts (therapists), supervisors are candidates (or members of) of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Part of them (13 persons - first generation) began its own shuttle psychoanalytical training in different countries of Europe 3-6 years ago in compliance with standards of IPA and receive or finished it. Another part of teachers (13 persons too - second generation) have its own analytical training in Moscow with members of first generation.
2. 6 - 7 persons from first generation of teachers already have more than 300-400 hours of personal analysis, 2 prolong - supervized cases more than 1 year -- it is comply with criterions of EFPP.
3. The programme also includes seminars and supervisions conducted by USA's and European psychoanalysts - members of the IPA.

F. Certificate of degree:
1. A diploma, certifying the completion of specialization (professional re-training), is awarded on the basis of:
a) fulfillment of all current requirements of the tuition process (attendance, tests, reports, etc.);
b) accumulation of the necessary volume of individual therapy (analysis);
c) control tests on 2 clinical cases supervised for a long period of time.
2. In difficult cases the evaluation is carried out by an independent panel of experts on the basis of 3 individual interviews.
3. A student who fails to fulfill all requirements, necessary to acquire a diploma, has an unlimited in time possibility to meet existing demands through individual efforts.

June 2001

Rector of IPPP,
IPA-candidate: Elena Spirkina

Dean of the Psychoanalytical Faculty of IPPP,
IPA-candidate: Mikhail Romachkevitch

Chairman of the Scientific Council of Psychoanalytical Faculty,
full direct member of IPA: Igor Kadyrov
Room 229, 13 Yaroslavskaya St.
Moscow 129366
Tel./fax: (095)-282-11-14
E-mail:ippp_pfr@psychol.ras.ru
www.psychol.ras.ru/ippp_pfr/

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