Requirements for the "Recommended Core Program in Analytical Psychology"
Requirements for Theoretical Training Curricula in Analytical Psychology:
- The curriculum’s topic plan must include topics that correspond to the list of mandatory topics specified in the appendix "Minimum List of Topics for Theoretical Training in Analytical Psychology, Recommended by the UJA (GM of IAAP) for Authorial Programs." (Appendix 1).
- The number of theoretical hours must be no less than 360 academic hours, and the program duration no less than 2 years.
- The program must involve at least three instructors who are members of the UJA (GM of IAAP). Purpose: fostering collegiality, familiarizing participants with the professional community, broadening experience, and learning from different analysts. The distribution of hours among the teaching staff is regulated within the program.
- Participants in the program can be specialists who have obtained higher education and senior students of higher education institutions.
- Upon completion of the program, participants write a final "Graduate Thesis." This can be a description of a clinical case from their own practice or an analysis of an image from a selected literary work using Jungian concepts.
Program participants are recommended to:
Undergo personal therapy/analysis, group and individual supervisions to support their psychotherapeutic practice. Analysts can be chosen from both certified Jungian analysts and routers (candidates in analytical training) undergoing analytical training in an IAAP training project.
Procedure for Submitting Documents:
- The program author must submit an application to the UJA Secretary 6 months before the next UJA General Meeting (UJA General Meetings are scheduled for February and September) and present:
- A plan/list of topics included in the author's "Basic Theoretical Training Program in Analytical Psychology," indicating the total number of theoretical hours planned by the program and the program duration;
- A list of instructors.
- Undergo verification for compliance with the requirements.
An authorial program can receive "Recommended" status after its review and approval at the UJA General Meeting.
Provisions:
- A program that started its educational process after August 28, 2019 (the date the UJA was granted group membership in IAAP) can receive "recommended" status.
- The UJA recognizes a program's status as a "Recommended Basic Theoretical Training Program in Analytical Psychology" if the program meets all the mandatory requirements of the "Basic Program" and is approved at the UJA General Meeting.
- Graduates of recommended basic programs receive a "Certificate," signed by the project leader, the President or Vice-President of the UJA, stating: "Authorial Course in Analytical Psychology, Recommended by the UJA (GM of IAAP) as a Basic Training Program in Analytical Psychology," specialization "analytically oriented psychologist."
Information.
Basic programs in Analytical Psychology recommended by the UJA (GM of IAAP) in Ukraine that currently meet all requirements:
- Inna Kyryliuk's Basic Program. The program consists of two levels of study: Level 1 "Foundations of Analytical Counseling and Jungian Psychotherapy" and Level 2 "Theoretical-Supervision Course 'Jungian Therapy'."
- Olena Pozdeieva's Basic Program in Analytical Psychology "Psyche, Symbol, Path".
- Serhii Tekliuk's Basic Program in Analytical Psychology.
Appendix 1.
Minimum List of Topics for Theoretical Training in Analytical Psychology, Recommended by the UJA (GM of IAAP) for Authorial Programs.
I. Jungian Understanding of Personality and Psychopathology.
- Structure of personality according to C.G. Jung (concepts of consciousness and the unconscious, theory of psychological defenses, theory of development).
- Theory of the individual psyche: Persona, Ego-complex, and Shadow (theory of complexes, Jung's association test).
- Theory of the collective psyche: theory of archetypes; concepts of the collective conscious and the collective Shadow.
II. Basic Concepts of Analytical Psychology and Their Clinical Application.
- Archetype of the Mother and the mother complex.
- Archetype of the Father and the father complex.
- Anima.
- Animus.
- The Self.
III. Specifics of Organizing Jungian Analysis:
- Analytical setting: determining fees, session frequency, disclosure of personal information by the analyst.
- Stages of analysis. Defining and developing the client's ability to work with images, symbols, and imagination.
- Ethical principles. Maintaining an analytical and ethical attitude towards working with clients.
IV. Practice of Analytical Psychology.
- Methods for activating and interpreting unconscious material.
- Theory of transference and countertransference. Working with transference.
- Theory of dreams and their interpretation.
- Analytical methods for working with unconscious material: active imagination (transcendent function); amplification; reductive, dynamic, and synthetic interpretation. Interpretation of images.
- Time for comments and other interventions.
- Working with fairy tales and myths.
V. Jung's Typological Model.
- Concepts of extraversion and introversion.
- Functions of consciousness: rational and irrational functions.
- Type mandala: superior, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions.
- Principles for classifying types of consciousness.
- Clinical application of typology in practice.
VI. Psychopathology
- Specifics of working with patients with narcissistic and borderline personality disorders.
- Working with psychotic disorders.
- Specifics of working with psychosomatic illnesses, trauma, etc.
VII. Preparation and Defense of Certification Work (Supervisions).
Mastery of the recommended topics of the basic program in analytical psychology is a necessary condition for further training in the IAAP training program for Jungian analysts.