Training Standards

Each training approved by the Consortium must satisfy the following criteria:
1) Provide a detailed exploration of the particular psychoanalytic tradition in which the training situates itself.
2) Encourage the critical evaluation of work in this tradition and study the development and changes in its conceptual and clinical frameworks.
3) Provide comparisons and contrasts with other earlier and contemporary psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic traditions.
4) Encourage a questioning of the place of knowledge in the psychoanalytic field, and learn how not to know.
5) Provide a sustained enquiry into the relation of theory to practice.

These are guiding criteria for trainings. On a clinical level, they must be able to
6) Demonstrate a detailed grasp of how analytic

concepts apply to a clinical case.
7) Demonstrate a sensitivity to the particularity of each case and a recognition that other approaches may be preferred.
8) Demonstrate the ability to work with analysands in a variety of frequencies and consider the implications of such work.
9) Demonstrate the ability to consider risks in a clinical setting and to know when to seek advice.
10) Think carefully about psychical change and what makes it possible. This entails a sustained enquiry into the question of interpretation and its effects.
11) Take seriously the question of analytic ethics and abide by the code of ethics of the organisation to which they belong.
Trainings registered with the Consortium must demonstrate that these criteria form a part of the activities they organise and are subject to serious consideration. Different

trainings may have different ways of approaching these criteria, and the Consortium encourages trainings to make explicit their particular ways of tackling these often complex issues.

Registration

The Consortium will assess applications from analytic trainings that can show a commitment to psychoanalysis and the criteria set out above. The Membership Committee of the Consortium is composed of one member from each of the registered groups, and, if a training is accepted, it will be subject to a five-yearly inspection by the Consortium to ensure that training standards and criteria have been maintained.