Training at WCSPP

Supervisory Training Program

SUPERVISORY TRAINING PROGRAM (ONE YEAR)

The Supervisory Training Program is a course of study designed to develop the skills and theoretical background consistent with supervisory responsibilities in practice, agencies and training institutes.

ADMISSION

Applicants must have four years of clinical experience after having received psychoanalytic certification.

REQUIREMENTS

• SUPERVISION: Supervisors in training will supervise candidates or graduates from within WCSPP or other institutes, or therapists from the community. Each trainee will be supervised individually on a weekly basis by a senior faculty supervisor.

• COURSE WORK: Classes are held on a trimester schedule consisting of 11 weekly 1-1/3 hour seminars that meet in the instructors’ offices.

COURSES

• FALL: Review of historic and contemporary literature on supervision. Among the topics covered will be transference, countertransference and parallel process as they relate to supervision, the use of authority, the dangers of collusion, the supervisors and supervisee’s narcissism and unanticipated negative effects of supervision. Issues related to the supervisor’s responsibility and accountability to the supervisee and the patient will be considered.

• WINTER and SPRING: Intensive exploration of how the supervisor’s own values and identity as an analyst inform the work as a supervisor, i.e., what data is relevant, what is mutative, what theories and techniques are emphasized. Important readings and case material related to these and other challenging issues in supervision will be discussed.