Open Training & Psychoanalytic Candidacy
An engaged interest in the present and future condition of individual and civilizational life, is the only prerequisite for non-candidate seminar or course participation or ongoing community meetings. For a psychoanalytic candidacy, a license or degree in a related field is needed.
Open Training to All Interested Persons
In addition to formal psychoanalytic training toward certification as a psychoanalyst, all interested persons may participate in any of the offerings required of candidates. See our “Psychoanalytic Candidate Training Requirements” for those offerings.
Psychoanalytic Candidate Training Requirements
While we do adhere to the historical “tripartite” model of psychoanalytic training, its organizing principle is that of personal foundation. That foundation arises from our three inextricable and orienting questions and our Code of Ethics.
Put in demanding but everyday language, has one become a psychoanalyst, or is one “pretending”? We are evolving an exploration of its answer that is neither authoritarian nor laissez-faire. To that end, we do not stop searching for a democratic route, addressing the question of its meaning and the related question of narcissism’s intrusion by school leadership, as these might exist within our institute.
Training or Personal Analysis
On the one hand, we require a minimum number of 300 hours in one’s own personal analysis, frequency of sessions to be established between the analyst and analysand. One the other hand, and again consistent with our three overarching orienting questions, we are most interested in whether a candidate has developed a deep experience of answers. In other words, has one evolved to a psychical space of life that is driven by the Code of Ethics as we are stating it? Has one matured beyond an ideational mastery of central ideas of our field to a “knowing in one’s bones,” a having a hands-on experience of those ideas?
Control Analysis
This is an odd term, which we maintain as a connection to psychoanalytic history. What it means, or ought to mean, is being in supervision with two continuous cases, each presented weekly, and carried on a minimum of one year. The “control,” as it is called, will inevitably be informed by the candidate’s experiential knowledge gained in personal analysis.
Group Supervision
Before a candidate has cases ready for Control Analysis, Group Supervision is required on a semesterly basis.
Coursework
Over a period of four years, a candidate will complete a minimum of four years of one course per Fall and Spring Semesters each, by videoconference.
Secondly, an annual in-person community-wide, seminar gathering of two days, in June, in Fort Collins, Colorado. This gathering must be attended at least three times in four consecutive years of the candidate’s coursework.
Lastly, we conduct ten Community Meetings per year, and a candidate must attend a minimum of seven such gatherings a year.
Contact us for questions and information.
Transfer of Credits
Candidates interested in transferring to CCMPS, please contact the Clinical Director.
Non-discrimination Policy
CCMPS welcomes all students without regard to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity.