About our Analysts
The Society of Analytical Psychology is a founder member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). All our members are registered either with the BPC or the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). All are also members of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP).
People who have trained with the Society of Analytical Psychology have usually had a previous training in a related mental health profession, for example, medicine, psychology, or social work, or have completed some other training in psychotherapy or counselling.
The four-year training programme includes close supervision of the trainee's work as well as a personal analysis (4 or 5 sessions weekly), and theoretical study of Jungian, post-Jungian and psychoanalytic ideas. There is an emphasis on infant and child development in the course, which offers an understanding of the origins and complexities of problems experienced in later life.
All our analysts therefore have considerable experience of working with a variety of individuals and a range of difficulties, and are able to work more intensively in analysis (meeting four or five times weekly if necessary), or less intensively as is required or practicable for the particular person.
Categories of Analyst
All our analysts have been trained to high degree, however we have three categories of analyst: Member, Professional Member and Training Analyst. Anyone wishing to train at the Society is required to be in analysis with a Training Analyst or a Professional Member, as these categories of analyst have been approved to conduct training analyses. Training Analysts are able to supervise people in training at the SAP. These designations are marked against the analyst's name in our listing on this site.
Child Analytic Training
In the early 1970s the training programme in Child Analysis was established. The programme, having trained SAP Child and Adolescent Analysts for thirty years, is not accepting new trainees for the forseeable future.
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