Admissions
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- Application for SFCP Training Program (MS Word file)
- Letter from SFCP Admissions Committee Co-Chairs to applicants (MS Word file)
- List of SFCP training analysts (MS Word file)
- 2007-2008 Training Program Catalog (PDF file)
- memo about class time extension for candidate development (MS Word file)
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Prerequisites for training,
Admissions evaluation process,
Transfer application, Reapplication,
Non-discriminatory policy, and Enrollment.
Prerequisites for training
- Physician-Psychiatrists:
Must be graduates of approved medical schools, have completed at least one year of psychiatric residency, be licensed in California, and meet standards of personal suitability.
- Non-Physicians:
There are three categories of non- physician applications, all of which permit full training and one of which (non-physicians research) also permits partial training.
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Doctoral Clinicians
must have doctoral level degrees in clinical disciplines from approved programs and be licensed in California and meet standards of personal suitability.
- Non-doctoral Psychotherapists
must meet the following requirements:
i. Hold a clinical
masters degree that is usually awarded in the applicant's field.
ii. Have two
years of additional post-graduate training which can be either informal
programs or individually sculpted.
iii. Have
an established career track in clinical psychotherapeutic work. The
applicant must demonstrate ability and a commitment to psychotherapeutic
work.
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Research and special training applicants:
Researchers, scientists, scholars, educators and administrators may be admitted under the Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) guidelines.
i. Full Training:
A waiver is required for full training.
The applicant must be nominated by a local institute and applications are reviewed on a noncompetitive basis and solely on the merits of the applicants themselves,
on the research or other program plan that is presented, and on the relevance of full training to that plan.
The applicant must meet both of the following requirements:
(a) Hold the highest academic degree that is usually awarded in the applicant's
field of specialization or hold equivalent recognition non-academic fields.
(b) Plan a career in which research or scholarly endeavors clearly play a central role.
Applicants are expected either to be accomplished investigators, or to be outstanding academic teachers, scholars or administrators.
Through their research, scholarly work, teaching or administrative work, applicants should be in a position to, and have the capacity to, stimulate the development or the application of psychoanalysis.
ii. Partial training:
This includes a combined program of full or selected seminars and analysis with a training analyst.
In special instances, prior analysis with a training analyst or other analyst may suffice. A waiver is not required.
There are two important issues in partial training. The first is that this institute characteristically prefers to train fully.
The second is we generally follow the American Psychoanalytic Association CORST guidelines.
Admissions evaluation process
(The evaluation process takes 2-5 months.)
- Completion of the application form including a written autobiography and a nonrefundable application fee of $300.
The deadline to submit an application is March 1.
- Receipt of three letter of recommendation.
- Interviews arranged by Chair of Admissions Committee:
- Personal assessment interviews with three training analysts
(decided by the Admissions Committee on a rotating basis).
- Clinical case presentations with two faculty members (selected on a rotating basis).
- If necessary, for research or special applicants, one or more interviews with qualified research faculty,
university faculty, or training analysts, decided on by the Chair of the Admissions Committee in consultation with the Chair of the CORST Committee.
- Meeting of the Admissions Committee (usually the first Thursday of the month, September through June),
to discuss the application and vote on recommendation for admission. The Chair of the Admissions Committee, members of the Committee, training analysts
and faculty members who interviewed the applicant are expected to attend. There is no specific requirement for a quorum.
- Presentation of recommendation of Admissions Committee to the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division.
- Action by the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division to accept or reject recommendation.
- If recommendation is rejected, the Chair of Admissions returns to the Admissions Committee for discussion of the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division's concerns
and may return to the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division for further action.
- The Chair of Admissions Committee informs applicant of the decision of the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division.
Applications for Training from Close Relatives of members of the Education Committee and the Society --
These applicants will not be interviewed and evaluated by members of the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division.
The Admissions Committee will request an evaluation of the applicant from a member Institute of the American.
In its admissions decision, the SFCP will be informed and guided by the outside Admissions Committee report.
SFCP will be guided by the evaluation of the evaluating Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division.
Transfer Applications
Transfer applications will be accepted from other accredited Institutes.
The applicant must arrange for records to be sent.
Transfer applications will be asked (with rare exception) to resume a didactic analysis
with a member of our Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division.
Evaluation of Transfer Applicants:
The Admissions Committee Chair, in consultation with the members of the Committee and, if necessary, with the Chair of the Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division, decides whether to undertake the usual or a modified evaluation procedure.
Reapplication
Reapplications will be accepted.
There is no strict policy about the period of time between applications, nor is there any definite policy about the number of times an application may be accepted for evaluation.
Non-Discriminatory Policy
SFCP admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, loan program or any other school-administered programs.
Enrollment
Those applicants who are accepted are enrolled in the training program as pre-seminar candidates.
Admission to training carries the expectation that a candidate will, within a month or so of acceptance, report arrangements for his/her personal analysis with a training analyst.
The Adult and Child Psychoanalytic Training Division offers assistance in arranging for the analysis if such is desired.
The objective is to enable a prompt beginning of training through facilitation of the finding of a training analyst who anticipates having analytic time available reasonably soon.
Candidates must be in analysis with a training analyst prior to beginning course work.
