IPPNJ Certification - Personal Psychoanalysis

IPPNJ Certification

Personal Psychoanalysis

IPPNJ requires a minimum of 250 hours of personal analysis for the psychotherapy program and a minimum of 400 total hours for the full program in psychoanalysis. Candidates must begin a personal analysis by the end of their first year of training. Those who are already in analysis or analytic therapy may count their existing hours of treatment toward the Institute requirements as stipulated below. Those in treatment with someone who is not affiliated with IPPNJ may submit their analyst's credentials to the Training Committee for possible approval. Ordinarily, graduates of other institutes with requirements comparable to those of IPPNJ will be accepted as equivalent to IPPNJ training analysts, as will members of the International Psychoanalytic Association and of Section 1 of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. Analysts with less conventional credentials will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Training Committee. Hours of treatment with practitioners not acceptable to the IPPNJ Training Committee will not be counted toward the Institute's requirements.

IPPNJ makes no distinction between a personal or "therapeutic" analysis and a training or "didactic" experience. Analysis is to be conducted at a minimum of three 45-or 50-minute sessions per week, with the following exceptions designed to accommodate candidates with prior psychoanalytic therapy, with an IPPNJ approved practitioner, of less intensity: Up to 50 hours of the 250-hour requirement for completion of the psychotherapy program may have been twice-a-week treatment; up to 100 hours of the 40-hour minimal requirement for the full psychoanalysis program may have been twice-a-week. Analysis is to be conducted with the strictest respect for confidentiality; analysts of IPPNJ candidates are prohibited from reporting to the Institute on any features of treatment other than number and frequency of sessions completed.

Fees and scheduling arrangements for personal analysis are to be negotiated privately between analyst and analysand. Students who wish help in choosing an analyst may appeal to the coordinator of their particular area in New Jersey, or to any other member of IPPNJ, in order to find a person with attributes that may be especially important to them.