Training Information
Training
The Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy was formed in 1987 to provide a venue for the exchange of ideas, and to establish a training program for those professional persons interested in the Conversational Model. The Conversational Model is an integrated psychoanalytic model, which has been well researched and published, and is recommended in the treatment of severe personality disorders. See the ANZAP home-page for more details. It can be used in general day to day psychotherapy of other disorders that present for psychotherapeutic help.
About the Course in Adult Psychotherapy
A comprehensive training program is offered in the Conversational
Model - a contemporary process model of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice of the Psychotherapy of Self.
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Diploma Courses |
It is a three year part-time course, consisting of theoretical and clinical strands,with supervision offered singly and in groups, of the student's own case material on audio tape and process notes.
Who Can Apply?
This three year part-time course, leading to the award of a Diploma on successful completion, is open to mental health professionals who are already involved in psychotherapeutic work and wish to learn the model: psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, general practitioners, clinical nurses and others working in the area of counselling may apply depending upon individual need.
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Distance Courses |
Applicants will be expected to be prepared for an interview at which time their academic qualifications, their capacity for empathy, and their own emotional resources will be taken into account. Applicants will need to have as referee, a member of ANZAP, and any two other professional persons who are aware of their work and achievements.
The Training Program
The focus is on psychoanalytic theory and practice, and the development of practicing therapists through; theoretical interactive seminars with extensive reading material; individual and small group clinical supervision of audiotapes that allow a microanalysis of the therapeutic process; six Saturday morning seminars, an annual retreat and annual conference complement the course with clinical and theoretical presentations by experts in the field.
The Conversational Model of Hobson & Meares integrates into its framework the work of different theorists, important amongst them being William James, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, James Mark Baldwin, Jean Piaget, L. Vygotsky, C.G. Jung, Melanie Klein, H.S. Sullivan, D.W. Winnicott, John Bowlby, Colwyn Trevarthen, Heinz Kohut and Russell Meares. This focus on contemporary themes on a substrate of infant research and the latest neurophysiological findings in mind-brain and trauma research, allows for successful work with the severely disturbed who have had their development disrupted by repetitive trauma.
The Clinical Component consists of small group supervision over three years, of the candidate's own clinical work on audio tape and in process notes; in addition, individual supervision during the second and third years arranged privately with an accredited supervisor. Candidates are required to see one individual for 200 sessions, which is supervised in a group of three, and a second individual for 100 sessions in the second and third years, supervision of which will be arranged by the candidate privately. The candidate's capacity for sustained empathic enquiry, and the recognition and management of empathic failures and dysjunctions in the intersubjective experience will be of foremost importance.
A comprehensive reference list and relevant papers are provided on CD during the course, along with audio and videotaped lectures for the candidates' private use. Access to ANZAP's library provides the candidate with the most recent psychoanalytic journals and reference books from Freud to the present day.
A formal assessment is conducted of the candidate's work at the end of each year, at which time ample feed-back is provided, with the intention of helping their self-awareness in relation to the patient.
Seminars and Group Supervision occupy three hours once weekly,each individual case is seen twice weekly, to allow the candidate to experience the early and middle stages of therapy, under supervision, and possibly the end phase in some cases. Continuing suparvision is advised, after formal completion of the course. Personal therapy is mandatory part of the therapy should be concurrent with the course.
Aims of Training
Through their training the candidates will be better able to:
- Appreciate the importance and relevance of the therapeutic relationship
- Appreciate the central need for a sensitively attuned and empathic approach
- Develop the capacity to appreciate that both patient and therapist contribute to the relationship
- Appreciate that the expectational field involves expectations of both patient and therapist
- Understand this model in the context of other contemporary models
- Develop independent thinking
- Maintain high standards of ethical practice
- Appreciate and develop an interest in areas of research
- Be better prepared for the practice of intensive psychotherapy
Faculty
Professor Russell Meares - M.D.F.R.A.N.Z.C.P. (Chairman, Training Faculty)
Dr Joan Haliburn - M.B.B.S.F.R.A.N.Z.C.P. (Director of Training)
Dr George Lianos - M.B.B.S..F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Ms Tessa Phillips - B.Sc.H.E.D.M.A.M.A.Ps.
Dr Leo van Beine - M.B.B.S.F.R.A.N.Z.C.P.
Dr Catherine McGrath - M.B.B.S.B.A.Dip.Psych(ANZAP).
Ms Rochelle Hersch - BSW(hons)Dip.Psych(ANZAP).
Dr Judith Pickering - PhD.Dip.Psych(ANZAP).Dip.An.Psych(ANZSJA).B.A.Cert.(mus)Ed.M.Mus.IAAP.
Dr Philip Graham - M.B.B.S.(Sydney), M.Psych (N.S.W.), Fellow of ACPM.
Dr Leslie Devereaux - PhD.
Dr Andrew Leon - M.B.B.S M.Psych Dip.Psych(ANZAP).
Ms Michele Rousseau
For information please contact:
Ms Lorraine Taylor
The Secretary,
Ph: (02) 8399 3787
Fax: (02) 9209 4323
Email:
info@anzapweb.com 
