Training Program Information

ANALYST TRAINING OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION

The C.G.Jung Institute of ANZSJA is authorized by the International Association for Analytical Psychology to offer training in Jungian Analysis. Training intake occurs periodically. The C.G. Jung Institute training program seeks to offer a comprehensive training which will be available to suitably qualified and experienced clinicians, committed to the development of a mature and conscious personality, and who are willing to undertake the task of assimilating Jungian thought and practice by developing an individual style of work with the unconscious both personally and professionally. The Institute requires all applicants to ensure they comply with any legal requirements for practice. Fulfilling such requirements is the responsibility of the individual applicant. Analytic training is postgraduate in character.

1. TRAINING INTAKE PROCESS: CRITERIA and PROCEDURES

Stated requirements and criteria for admission and advancement are based on standards established by the International Association Analytical Psychology for analytical training. Requirements are stated as minimums and are subject to change by the Institute.

Personal Analysis

Prior to applying for admission the applicant will have completed a minimum of 150 individual hours of personal analysis with an ANZSJA/IAAP member Analyst over a period of not less than two years, six months of which must be immediately prior to the application.

Analytic Hours

ANZSJA is a member of the Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Section of PACFA, thus analysis during training needs to be a minimum of twice per week. Trainees/Candidates are ineligible for health insurance rebate for the analysis/psychotherapy received during training.
Personal analysis and supervised clinical practice are to be in individual hours to qualify for credit. The numerical fulfilment of the required hours, however, does not oblige the Institute either to admit an applicant into training, or to advance a Trainee/Candidate within it. Trainees/Candidates are evaluated and monitored throughout.
Personal Analysts are excluded from voting on their analysand's admission to training and on their movement from one stage of training to another. Personal Analysts do not report on a Trainee/Candidate at any time, other than to verify number of hours of analysis.

Academic Qualifications

The training programme is specifically post-graduate in character and all applicants must ordinarily have a postgraduate degree or its equivalent. If the academic qualifications contain insufficient study of dynamic and developmental psychology, the Institute may require further study in these areas to be completed prior to the completion of Stage II.

Further Experience

Applicants are to be at least 30 years of age at the time of the application. Professional experience will be taken into consideration in the selection of Trainees. It is an advantage for applicants to have a relevant and recognised professional qualification that carries clinical responsibility, and to have had experience within a psychiatric setting.  It is preferable for applicants to have worked in a clinical capacity for at least three consecutive years prior to application.
In exceptional circumstances an applicant with a non-clinical background might be considered for admission if such an applicant demonstrates an outstanding potential for depth psychological understanding and for psychological relationship with people in an analytic setting. This capacity needs to be demonstrated in such a way that it is assessable by the interviewing Analysts.

Analytic Practice

Applicants are required to demonstrate the capacity to conduct analytic practice by carrying an appropriate number of hours of work with patients/clients. It is necessary to belong to a professional organisation, which has its own code of ethics, and hold professional indemnity insurance.
Those individuals who enter training who are not engaged in the practice of Jungian psychotherapy prior to admission are expected to gradually build their analytic practice during the course of their training.
Trainees must be legally entitled to practice clinically in their state or country of residence.

Supervision

A minimum of 25 hours supervision for clinical work with patients/clients in a therapeutic setting is required at the time of application. A non-Jungian supervisor may meet this requirement.
Upon admission, all Trainees are required to seek appropriate supervision for their practice as follows:
In Preliminary and Stage I, Trainees may undertake supervision with either an ANZSJA Analyst or an ANZSJA Training Analyst.
In Stage II at least 100 hours individual supervision of training cases are to be undertaken with ANZSJA Training Analysts.

An Analytic Training Intake Application will include the following items

  1. Completed application (form available from the Secretary of the Institute).
  2. Academic transcripts (university, college, etc.).
  3. Curriculum vitae (typewritten).
  4. Autobiography of personal and psychological development of not more than 2,000 words (typewritten).
  5. Letters from all Analysts with whom the applicant has worked, including Supervisors if applicable, stating the number of analytic hours and the dates during which the analyses took place. (NB: personal Analysts do not recommend either for or against acceptance into training).
  6. A non-refundable application administration fee of $A150, payable to the ANZSJA

The C.G. Jung Institute will treat the application and all materials relating to either admission or advancement within training as confidential.

Application Criteria

Upon receipt of an application together with the fee and all supporting material, the information is reviewed by the Training Committee of the Institute according to the following criteria:

  1. Academic qualifications and basic professional training.
  2. Professional experience.
  3. Aptitude for depth psychotherapy.
  4. Personal integrity.

Favourable review will lead to an invitation to participate in a clinical seminar and to attend three initial personal interviews. Both the seminar and interviews will be held during an Institute meeting.

Clinical Seminar and Selection Interviews Assessment

Clinical seminar: Suitable applicants will be invited to participate in a group clinical seminar in which a case study will be discussed by participants. Two Training Analysts will be present in the group, one as a facilitating Analyst, the other as an observing Analyst. The assessment is concerned with the applicant’s capacity to effectively participate in a clinical discussion group.
Selection interviews: Three ANZSJA Training Analysts who have not been involved in either personal analysis or supervision with the applicant conduct the formal pre-selection interviews. These three interviewers assess the suitability of the applicant for training with the Institute by concentrating upon qualities of personal development, academic background and clinical experience. If these interviews are inconclusive, the applicant may be invited to a fourth interview.

Applicants are required to demonstrate:

  1. A sustained interest in the intra-psychic and interpersonal aspects of the psychology of individuals.
  2. A proven capacity for rigorous self-motivated academic and clinical studies.
  3. A readiness to continue in the ongoing development of a fruitful relationship with the unconscious.
  4. A capacity to engage with and contribute to the training group and ANZSJA as a whole.

At the discretion of the Institute a presentation of a work sample (e.g. a case presentation or other supplementary information) may be requested.
If successful, the applicant is admitted to the Preliminary Stage of training.

2. THE TRAINING PROCESS: STRUCTURE and PROCEDURES

In order to provide a comprehensive analytic training which is accessible to people throughout the main cities in Australia and New Zealand, the heart of the Institute training programme will comprise Residential Seminars and Local Seminars.
Residential seminars: Each year Residential Seminars will rotate between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Auckland and the Gold Coast and Perth. Residential Seminars will run from Friday morning to the midday of the following Monday, and all Trainees/Candidates are required to attend. The syllabus for training will be structured around these residential gatherings.
Local seminars: Approximately 30 hours of Local Seminars based on a structured syllabus, will occur between the Residential Seminars. The Local Seminar also offers opportunities for Trainees/Candidates to develop themes and areas of interest arising out of the Residential Seminars. The structure, timing and themes of these meetings will be negotiated between the local Training Analysts, Trainees/Candidates and the Courses Committee in conjunction with the Co-Directors of Training.

Stages of Training

There are three stages of training:
Preliminary
Stage I – Trainee
Stage II - Candidacy
The decision to apply for advancement to each Stage is an individual matter. Each Trainee/Candidate is expected to consider carefully her/his subjective sense of readiness for the next Stage of training and to explore this thoroughly with her/his personal Analyst, Supervisor and Tutor.
Because of the fundamental confidentiality of the Analyst/analysand relationship there shall be no communication between a Trainee/Candidate’s personal Analyst concerning her/his progress through the training programme, apart from the personal Analyst's report on the number of analytic hours completed.  

Preliminary Stage

The Preliminary Stage of training runs for not less than one year and is a trial period of mutual evaluation between Trainee and Institute as to suitability for further training. The Trainee, in addition to her/his personal analysis, will follow prescribed reading and will attend both Residential Seminars and Local Seminars.
The Preliminary Stage of training will address itself to:

  1. Foundational history of Analytical Psychology as a clinical and philosophical discipline
  2. The ethical foundations of practice as a Jungian Analyst
  3. Typology
  4. Alchemy
  5. The body in Jungian Analysis
  6. The unconscious and expressions of madness
  7. Transference/countertransference
  8. Training and practising as a Jungian Analyst
  9. Destructivity in analysis.

Stage I

In Stage I, which will last for at least one year, Trainees will continue with personal analysis, with supervision for their case work, and will participate fully in both the Residential and Local Seminar programmes. In addition, Trainees are required to participate in an analytically-oriented infant observation seminar.

Stage I of training will address itself to:

  1. The pre-symbolic and the emergence of a symbolising space
  2. Ego/Self axis and individuation
  3. Processes of symbolisation
  4. Culture and identity
  5. The archetypes and the collective unconscious
  6. Myth and fairy tales
  7. The meta-personal
  8. Psychiatry and psychopathology
  9. Psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic technique
  10. Interpretation and amplification
  11. Intersubjectivism.

In addition, the Trainee may be required to write theoretical papers on some aspect of analytical psychology, and/or to present counselling/psychotherapy cases at Residential Seminars or Local seminar group case colloquia.

Analytically Oriented Infant Observation

During Stage I, Trainees will also arrange to participate in an analytically oriented infant observation seminar over a period of twelve to eighteen months.

Advancement to Stage II Candidacy: Overview

There are three Stage II entry tasks required to demonstrate readiness to advance to Stage II Candidacy.
 
Stage II Candidacy Entry Paper:

1.   Trainees will be invited to write a 5,000 word paper on an aspect of their emerging           experience of themselves as a clinician. The topic of this paper should be discussed        with both Supervisor and Tutor to ensure that it complies with Institute requirements.          The paper will be assessed by two Training Analysts assigned by the Institute.
Stage II Candidacy Presentation:

  1. Once the paper has been passed, the Trainee will be invited to give an oral presentation based on this work to a panel of three Training Analysts at the following Institute meeting. Two members of the panel will be the readers of the paper, the third nominated by the Institute.
  2. Following the presentation the Trainee will engage in a free-ranging discussion with the three Analysts.

Stage II - Candidacy

Stage II of training will address itself to clinical matters:

  1. Psychosis
  2. Trauma and dissociative disorders
  3. Autism
  4. Borderline disorders of the self
  5. Narcissistic personality disorders
  6. Depression.

Stage II of training shall last for a minimum of two years and, except for unusual circumstances where extensions may be granted, and shall not exceed four years. During this stage of training, personal analysis and supervision continue and Candidates are required to participate fully in all Residential and Local Seminar programmes, and to fulfil two other curriculum requirements;
1.   Supervision of three training cases.
2.   Psychiatric placement.

There are two major written works to be submitted prior to the Final Examination:
1.   Thesis/Project of 15,000 words on an approved topic.
2.   Case Study of 10,000 words on one of the three supervised cases.

Supervised Analysis

Each Candidate will conduct analyses with at least three analysands (not all of the same gender). Two of these analysands must be seen for a minimum of twice per week for at least two years. The total number of these analytic sessions must be at least 200 hours. Candidates are expected to be supervised by at least two Training Analysts who have not been the Candidate’s personal Analysts. A minimum of 100 hours of analytic supervision is required.
Clinical Experience other than Supervision
During Stage II the Candidate will become experienced in a wide variety of clinical practice over an adequate period, including, for example, work with disturbed children and adolescents, and those with psychotic disorders.

Thesis/Project Proposal

Before completing Stage II, Candidates are required to complete and submit a Thesis of about 15,000 words or an equivalent Project on some aspect of analytical psychology or related clinical work. A written proposal must be submitted to the Secretary of Training not less than 12 months prior to the anticipated date of taking the Thesis Examination. The CGJI Executive will consult with Analysts with expert knowledge in the Candidate’s chosen field to assess the proposal’s suitability and manageability.

Completion

Successful completion of the training enables eligibility for membership as a Jungian Analyst with the International Association for Analytical Psychology and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts.

3. FEES

Trainees/Candidates will pay their analysis and supervision fees as negotiated between themselves and their analysts and supervisors and these costs will form the bulk of their training expenses. (It should be noted that, because ANZSJA is a member of the Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Section of the PACFA register, analysis during training needs to be a minimum of twice per week.)
In addition to analysis and supervision fees, all Trainees/Candidates will pay CGJI fees as indicated below.
Examination and Assessment fees are determined annually.
Currently fees are as follows:
Pre-Selection Fee
Entry Application Fee                                                                                  = $150
Entry Application: Interviews & Group Seminar Fee                                       = $1600

Assessment Fees
Entry Stage I: Interviews 3 interviews total                                                     = $460
Entry Stage II: Interviews 3 interviews total                                                    = $460

Readers Fees: Entry Stage II Paper 2 x $175                                                = $350
Readers Fees: Case Study 2 x $275                                                             = $550
Readers Fees: Thesis/Project 3 x $375                                                         = $1125

Presentation Fees: Entry Stage II Paper Presentation                                    = $400
Presentation Fees: Stage II Case Study                                                        = $400
Presentation Fees: Stage II Thesis/Project                                                    = $400

Annual Fees
Annual Training Fees                                                                                   = $4888
(NB: The Annual Training Fee covers all Residential Seminars and Local Seminars, but excludes infant observation seminars, travel costs, accommodation and food. It includes 4 sessions per year with the Tutor.)
ANZSJA Membership Fees                                                                          = $250
Trainees/Candidates will also be responsible for any costs incurred for fulfilling the requirement for a psychiatric placement.

NB: All fees are reviewed annually and can be expected to move in line with CPI increases and with any significant increase in component costs (e.g. airfares). Please also be aware that extra costs may be incurred relating to additional analysis or supervision on the recommendation of the Institute.

 

NB: Australian GST is additional to these fees.

 


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