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become a tsa

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being an icp member has many benefits, including being part of a professional community dedicated to contemporary psychoanalytic thinking.

Through the ICP Community many have found a home, cultivating professional connections as well as lifelong friendships, reducing the isolation one might experience in private practice.

  • Participating in peer-run consultation groups;
  • Ability to become an ICP Training and Supervising Analyst;
  • Participation in the ICP Listserv;
  • Access to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing library (PEP)
  • Having one’s practice listed on the “Find A Therapist” web page;
  • Accessing the online ICP Articles library;

  • Ability to audit classes or teach courses in our psychoanalytic training program;

  • Ability to attend our Saturday Series and our Extension Programs;
  • Earning free continuing education credits for license renewal;
  • Receiving discounts to attend selected programs offered to the public.
  • Opportunity to participate on ICP committees.

questions about any of the above benefits or the membership process?

Please feel free to reach out to the ICP office. We are looking forward to welcoming you as an ICP member and to share the pleasure of being part of our ICP community.

Annual membership fee is $1,200.00, due on 10-15 annually. The membership fee covers our fiscal year 10-01 through 09-30. The membership fee will be prorated by month depending on the date of membership approval or membership withdrawal.

Please email completed applications to the office at [email protected].

Please download the application to fill it out electronically. 

become a training and supervising analyst (TSA)

being a training and supervising analyst is an extraordinary role to have in the analytic training experience of a candidate

 

In order to become a Training and Supervising Analyst at ICP, applicants must be a member of ICP and meet certain requirements:

If they are an ICP graduate they need to have participated in an ICP Study Group for a minimum of five years. After two years post-graduation they may apply to the TSA Committee and become a TSA, but in order to retain their TSA status, they must continue to be in a study group for a total of five years (post-graduation). At least two years of that five-year requirement must be participating in an ICP peer consultation group (PCG), and one year must be in an ICP supervision training group (STG). For the remaining two years, they can choose to participate in either a peer group or a supervision group, or a year in each.

In addition, both ICP graduates and outside applicants for Training and Supervising Analyst must demonstrate competence by means of one of the following three options:

  1. Become Board Certified with a specialty in psychoanalysis or gain certification as a Training and Supervising Analyst through one of the following organizations: the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP); the American Psychoanalytic Association Board of Professional Standards (APsaA BOPS), the American Board of Psychoanalysis (ABPsa), or the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work (ABE BCD-P).
  2. Be an approved TSA at an institute with equivalent requirements.
  3. Present an analytic case at ICP before a three-member panel charged with determining suitability for TSA status. Two members of this panel are drawn from ICP’s TSA Committee, and one member of this panel is an ICP TSA but not on the TSA committee. In addition to presenting a case to this three-member panel, the applicant will also be asked to discuss their experience conducting and/or receiving supervision, and to describe how that experience has shaped their own philosophy and approach to supervision.

Please familiarize yourself with the detailed ICP TSA Policies and Procedures before sending your application, as these are the official ICP requirements. 

Please download the application to fill it out electronically. 

become an icp candidate of the psychoanalytic training program

Study consists of personal analysis, three supervised control cases, four years of seminars, & final report.

The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis affords candidates the excitement of advances in psychoanalytic thought built on our rich heritage of psychoanalytic theory. Recent developments in the areas of attachment, trauma, neuroscience, philosophy, infant research, consciousness, and complex dynamic systems expand the domain of psychoanalysis in ways never before imagined.

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icp is a diverse community comprised of members, candidates, students, corresponding members, and staff

ICP strives to promote an environment of free inquiry, a sense of community, a culture of diversity, inclusion, invitation, dignity, and respect for the therapeutic process.