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Course content
The Advanced Clinical Course takes place one evening a week, on a Thursday. There will be two years of theoretical/clinical seminars with senior practitioners in the profession. The candidate will be required to undertake two years of supervision of two 3x weekly patients with two supervisors, who must be approved by the Education Committee. In some cases, with the approval of the Committee, one supervision may be reduced to fortnightly in the second year.
Themes to be explored
Year One
Term 1: Various disturbed states of mind
Term 2: Contemporary diagnostic formulations
Term 3: Perspectives on transference and counter-transference
Year Two
Term 1: Patients who are difficult to reach
Term 2: Enactments and difficulties in thinking
Term 3: Psychic change
Each candidate will have an individual tutor to support his or her development. Further therapy or analysis may be recommended at the discretion of the Education Committee.
Qualification
Qualification will be based primarily on the reports provided by supervisors, but tutors and seminar leaders’ reports are also taken into consideration. All candidates completing the Advanced Clinical Course successfully will be awarded Senior Membership as an advanced clinical practitioner of the LCP.
Outcome
- Senior Membership of the LCP, including BPC registration for non-BPC candidates.
- Eligible for Professional Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with LCP/Essex University.
- Eligible to apply for the post of training therapist and supervisor, 5 years after qualifying as a senior member.
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