A two year, online Diploma Course for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and analysts registered with BACP, UKCP, BPS, or BPC and qualified, English-speaking therapists living, practising and registered in other countries.
With limited therapeutic services available to this transitional age group, there is increasing pressure and demand on therapists in private practice and charities to treat patients within this group.
This course has been developed to further the therapist’s skill and support when working with this challenging developmental stage.
This course will focus on the adolescent “state of mind” and its interminability. This means that, although much of the theory and clinical work will be focused on adolescents and young adults, the attention will be on a mental functioning that is potentially interminable and can be found at any age. In addition, the term “interminability” refers to the evidence that in contemporary Western societies, fluidity and vagueness around transitions are in the foreground and constitute quite a challenging problem.
The course will support a learning and experiential space for the therapist to discover what it will mean to allow the patient’s core anxieties—conscious and unconscious—to emerge in the service of development. The course will give close attention to transference and counter-transference manifestations and to the central significance of observation.
Structure: The course is a two-year programme covering 6 modules, three modules per year
Module 1: October – December
Module 2: January – March
Module 3: April – June
Format:The Saturday seminar day will be split into a morning seminar. This will be followed by group supervision of clinical material in the afternoon. In addition to this, course participants will also have weekly individual supervision of patients seen in a therapeutic setting.
Participants can choose to attend as many or as few modules as they wish to. However, we strongly recommend that participants sign up for at least three modules in a row.
Participants who attend all six modules over two years will be asked to write a 5000 word clinical paper on one of the cases seen in individual supervision and complete two 1-0-1 yearly supervisions on two adolescent cases.
Award: Those who attend all six modules, complete two 1-0-1 yearly supervisions on two adolescent cases AND write the clinical paper will receive the SAP Diploma in Jungian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Young Adults.
Those who attend less than six modules and/or do not write the paper and/or do not complete the two 1-0-1 yearly supervisions will get a Certificate of Attendance.
Both the Diploma and the Certificate will count towards Continuous Professional Development credits.
Venue: Online
Convenor: Dr Francesco Bisagni
Fees: £1350/- per year
Year 1
9 October 2021 |
Francesco Bisagni |
Psychoanalytic Foundations: When “adolescence” was born
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20 November 2021 |
Guest Speaker: Marica Rytovaara |
La Danse Macabre: Dancing with Death as a Night Journey to Life
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11 December 2021 |
Francesco Bisagni |
Vertical and horizontal: Group mind and transgenerational transmission French psychoanalysis and the third topography |
22 January 2022 |
Guest Speaker: Barry Proner |
Fordham, Bion and the emotional learning: De-intergration/Re-integration and alpha function
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12 February 2022 |
Guest Speaker: Suzanne Maiello |
Internal obstacles on the way to Separateness and Adulthood: The re-emergence of primary psychic organizations and relational patterns in adolescence
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19 March 2022 |
Guest Speaker: Eduardo Pitchon |
Adolescence: A time of uncertainties Learning to navigate the perils and challenges of an endless transition |
9 April 2022 |
Guest Speaker: Melissa Midgen |
Genitality today: Complexity and evolution of a Freudian concept
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7 May 2022 |
Guest Speaker: Martin Schmidt |
The Father Function and adolescence
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11 June 2022 |
Francesco Bisagni |
Sad passions and boredom
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Year 2
Some of the presenters and topics for Year 2 are:
Final dates and running order for Year 2 to be confirmed in due course.
For further information, you can download a brochure here.
Applications for 2021-22 are now closed. If you are interested in joining the course, please contact the Training & Education Manager.
Francesco Bisagni, a psychiatrist, was trained as a Jungian Analyst in Italy and in London. He is currently a training and supervising analyst for the SAP. He is a Child and Adolescent psychotherapist according to the Tavistock model and also a psychoanalyst of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in the US. He has lectured and taught extensively over Europe, the UK, the US and Russia and has books published as author or editor, as well as articles in the major psychoanalytic journals. His latest book is ‘Obsessions: the Twisted Cruelty’, published by Karnac in 2017.