TRAINING COURSE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

Notes for completing the application:

1. Attached are: (a) An application form; (b) Reference form.

2. Application is for the training course starting in October 2009.

3. Applicants must be at least 28 years old.

4. Please print/send the attached reference form to your two referees, who should be asked to return the completed forms to the Administrative Assistant at AGIP as soon as possible. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that the forms are returned.

5. Return the typed completed application plus copies of academic and professional certificates etc. to office@agip.org.uk

The application will be acknowledged by email

6. Please send a fee of £95 to cover administrative costs. Your cheque should be made payable to AGIP and mailed to 1 Fairbridge Road, London N19 3EW.

7. Please note that the closing date for applications is 31 May 2009. Late applications will be considered so long as places remain and there is sufficient time to process them.

General information for applicants:

1. Once an application has been received, the procedure usually includes the following stages: consideration of your written application by our Training Committee: two individual interviews with members of AGIP.

Please note: if the Training Committee decide not to interview you at this time, £15 will be retained for administrative costs and a cheque for £80 will be sent to you. The Training Committee will give you some indication of why your application has not been taken forward to the interview stage.

2. The fees for 2009/2010 will not be less than £1,800 per annum. Training fees do not include fees for individual therapy.

3. In accepting the offer of a training place, a non-refundable deposit of £250 must accompany the letter of acceptance of a place. This will be deducted from the first year’s fees.

4. Applicants are usually expected to have been in psychoanalytically orientated psychotherapy for at least one year prior to the commencement of the course. All previous

psychoanalytic therapy will be taken into consideration.

5. Trainees are required to attend personal individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy twice weekly throughout the entire duration of their training until qualification. In addition, a significant period of therapy at more than twice a week is expected at some time during the course of the training prior to qualification.

6. Applicants and trainees must ensure that their psychotherapist is recognised by AGIP as a training psychoanalytic psychotherapist. A therapist who is not already recognised will be asked to apply to AGIP for ratification as soon as the applicant has been accepted to do the training. AGIP has established criteria for the recognition of training therapists.

7. Applicants who are in personal therapy with a practitioner who does not fulfil our criteria for a Training Therapist can arrange a consultation to discuss the situation and if necessary receive help in changing to a new therapist.