Application
for Membership.
The
minimum requirements stipulated by the Federation are based on the
psychoanalytic theory and therapy as initiated by Sigmund Freud and advanced by
others, i.e. on the recognition and understanding of unconscious mental
processes, the therapeutic use in clinical work of the principles of
transference, resistance and counter-transference and the use as well of the
psychoanalytic theory in research for the understanding of human mind and human
relations.
The IFPS admits Psychoanalytic
Societies whose members have the following level of training: a full course of
studies in medicine or psychology (or an equivalent graduate course of studies)
and a minimum of three years additional training in psychoanalysis. The course
of training must be accompanied by a personal analysis (not less than 300
sessions, three sessions per week). The training must consist of a curriculum
of a minimum of three years of theoretical and clinical instruction. The
training must include supervised psychoanalytic sessions conducted with at
least two different supervisors.
The Society shall have an affiliated
training facility (Institute), which must have been in existence for at least
six years and must have not less than six training analysts, six supervising
analysts and six faculty members.
Contact:
Sonia Gojman Ph.D, Secretary General. Callejón
del Horno #6, 04000 México 21, D.F. Phone: + 5255 5554 6383) Fax: +5255 555
40925). email: sgojman@yahoo.com