The New Entry Scheme
Introduction
The British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS) aims to promote psychoanalysis in Britain. It recognises that some talented and motivated graduates of BPC trainings will have organised CPD experience such that their clinical experience and expertise is comparable to that of graduates of psychoanalytic societies. We welcome qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapists to apply for a newly formed entry scheme. Such applicants will be required to demonstrate that they have completed a Freudian training in adult psychotherapy with a Member Institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and to meet other criteria for eligibility described below. The New Entry Scheme is an alternative route of entry into the BPAS and not an alternative training to the Institute psychoanalytical training. The Society is keen to encourage applicants for the scheme from outside of London.
Those successful applicants who are elected to Associate Membership of the BPAS through the NES route of entry will automatically become members of the International Psychoanalytic Association. (The qualification Member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (M. Inst. Psychoanal) remains restricted to those who have completed the training of the Institute of Psychoanalysis.) All those who are elected to Associate Membership of the BPAS are expected to have an adequate knowledge of the main ways of doing psychoanalysis recognised by the BPAS.
All Associate Members are eligible to follow the Institute’s procedures that may lead to qualification as a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (F. Inst. Psychoanal). The status of Training Analyst of the Institute is open to application from all Fellows of the Institute.
The scheme is overseen by the New Entry Scheme Committee (NESC). The Committee is a sub-committee of the Education Committee, and appointed by the Board and Council of the British Psycho-Analytic Society. A maximum of two applications to the NES are permitted, the second not to be within two years of the first. The NES is a carefully regulated process. Essentially this is an assessment process, even though those accepted into the scheme receive a real input while they are in the scheme. For those accepted as entrants, there will be extended evaluation of their psychoanalytic identity over a period of at least a year.
Applications must be made electronically to the BPAS Education Secretary using the application form below; the application fee of £200 should be sent by post under separate cover to the Education Secretary.
If the New Entry Scheme Committee decides that the application should not go forward the £200 application fee will be returned.
Applications may be made at any time of the year, but those accepted onto the scheme will begin in the following September.
Criteria for Application
In addition to the requirement that applicants are currently registered with the BPC as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist qualified in work with adults, and meeting BPC requirements for CPD, together with a minimum of four years post qualification experience, the following is also required:
i) At some point in their professional career applicants will have undertaken a
minimum of five years 4 or 5 times a week analysis with an IPA psychoanalyst.
ii) They should be expected to demonstrate a committed post-qualification CPD
record.
iii) They will be asked to provide, as a first referee, an analytic case
supervisor, who will be consulted with regard to their suitability for the NES.
iv) They will provide as a second referee another Member or Associate Member
(who may also be a supervisor) who has known the applicant for a minimum of 5
years and who can speak of their professional commitment to psychoanalysis.
v) They should have undertaken recent 4 or 5 times a week psychoanalytic
treatments under the supervision of one or more Members of the BPAS for a
minimum of 4 years in total. At least one, and preferably two, of these
treatments must be current 5 times a week cases that the Committee considers (on
the basis of the applicant's brief summary on the application form) to be
reasonably likely to be suitable for the purpose of the NES assessment process
(see para b below). Applicants should be aware that treatments that are subject
to external considerations (e.g. in terms of time limits or finance or training)
create special difficulties. Applicants will be required to confirm that they
will be in a position to undertake or continue with an ongoing five times a week
treatment on commencing the programme.
Consideration may in exceptional circumstances also be given to applicants from
senior members of BPC Societies who may not be in a position to meet these
criteria exactly but who nevertheless can demonstrate by other means long term
experience of, and commitment to, psychoanalysis.
Criteria for entrance into the scheme
Applicants whom the committee agree meet the criteria for application are offered an interview with a member of the committee. The interviewer considers whether the applicant’s wish to join the scheme is primarily to develop his/her psychoanalytic identity, and that he/she understands the demands of the programme and is capable of and in a position to meet them. The interviewer is interested in indications of the applicant’s capacity for further development as a psychoanalyst, as well as potential to make a contribution to the society.
The report of the interview is considered by the committee. A second interview may be arranged. Where the committee accepts a person as an entrant into the scheme a provisional judgement is made that the applicant is at a level at least comparable to that of a qualifying associate member.
If accepted as an entrant on the scheme, the programme will be as follows:
a) An Advisor will meet the entrant as appropriate to discuss the individual programme, feedback from seminar leaders and supervisor, and any problems that might arise.
b) The entrant is required to undertake weekly supervision with a Training Analyst on a 5x week case for as long as he/she is in the NES, and for a minimum of a year. The supervisor has to agree that the case is a suitable case for the Scheme. The Consultant Training Analyst must be agreed by the NESC, which will request 6 monthly reports. He/he cannot be one of the entrant’s referees.
c) The entrant will be required to attend during term time a weekly clinical seminar led by a Training Analyst and to present there the ongoing 5 x week case taken to suupervision or an alternative 5 x week case.
d) The entrant is required to attend a minimum of five series of theoretical seminars; these will be chosen from the Institute training Curriculum programme and/or the Centre for the Advancement of Psychoanalytic Studies (CAPS) series in consultation with the advisor.
e) The NES entrant will be eligible to attend Scientific Meetings of the British Psychoanalytic Society.
f) The names of the NES entrant will be included in a special section of Society’s Roster.
Note on Regional entrants: Attendance at some supervisions and seminars may be possible via telephone link. In the case of the telephone supervision of an entrant’s work, there has to be at least one face-to-face meeting each month. For theoretical and clinical seminars, entrants should attend in person for a minimum of one out of five – normally the first seminar.
Criteria for Assessment while in the Scheme
After a person is accepted into the scheme, the committee receives reports from theoretical and clinical seminar leaders, as well as the supervisor.
After one year on the Scheme, the NESC will decide, on the basis of all the available reports presented to the committee by an entrant’s advisor, whether the entrant may proceed to present the above 5x week case to a panel, or should leave the Scheme. If for any reason the Committee agrees that further supervision is advisable before the entrant proceeds to a panel, that panel must be held no later than 2 years after entry to the Scheme.
The panel will be made up of three members, at least two of whom will be Training Analysts. It will include one member of the NESC and will be chaired by a Training Analyst.
The NESC, together with the members of the panel, and the entrant’s supervising Training Analyst will decide whether to recommend to the Education Committee whether the entrant demonstrates at least an equivalent knowledge of and experience in psychoanalysis to that expected from a newly qualified Associate Member of the Society. If unsuccessful, the entrant may, after a minimum period of six months but not longer than one year after the first panel, request one further panel.
When the Education Committee nominates an applicant for election to Associate Membership, notice shall be given to the Society for election at a business meeting in the usual way.
Upon election the new Associate Member will
pay full Associate Membership dues of the BPAS.
Fees
There is a £200 application fee. If the application is accepted the NES programme fee will be £1,500 per annum; this includes the cost of clinical and theoretical seminars and the ongoing administration and tutoring; the fee is payable in advance and may be paid in three instalments of £500 per term and will be charged for each term that the applicant remains in the Scheme.
In addition the fee for the weekly consultation with a training analyst is by private arrangement with the consultant.
This page was last updated on
19/10/2009.
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