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LOW COST INTENSIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY AT THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Low-cost Clinic

The Society runs a reduced-fee scheme for analytic treatment . The analysis is usually conducted by an experienced person in training but may be with a qualified member working on behalf of the Clinic. Applicants pay a set fee for the initial consultation. Fees for ongoing analytic work are based on ability to pay. Sessions take place 4 times weekly.

Consultation Referral Service

The Consultation Service is available for people who wish to explore whether analysis or psychotherapy would be helpful. They are given the opportunity to talk about themselves, their difficulties, and, if they wish, are referred to a member for ongoing work. There is a fee for the initial consultation. Subsequent fees are arranged with the individual analyst.

Research Evidence

The Stockholm Outcome of Psychoanalysis Project (STOPP) provides empirical evidence for marked improvement in patients who have a significant period in analysis (Sandell el al. 2000, IJPA). Neuroscience and attachment theory also offer models which help to explain the need for long-term intensive work focusing on the transference and counter-transference.

Intensive Work and Dependency

It is often asked whether a long-term relationship with a therapist is good for patients.

Many problems have deep-seated roots requiring time for a relationship of sufficient trust with the therapist to develop so these underlying conflicts can be worked through. While time consuming, this may be the only approach which helps the patient make fundamental changes. Jung suggested regression ‘is not just a relapse into infantilism, but a genuine attempt to get at something necessary…the patient is seeking himself in his childhood memories…his development was one-sided; it left important items of character and personality behind, and thus it ended in failure. That is why he has to go back.’ (Collected Works, 16, 32-33.)

Finding Meaning in Symptoms

Jung spoke of ‘the inquiring and expectant attitude of ….analysis towards neurosis…it retrains from judging the value of a symptom and tries instead to understand the tendencies that lie beneath that symptom…[the symptoms] are [like] sunken treasures which can only be recovered by a diver; in other words the patient must now deliberately turn his attention to his inner life…His former compulsion now has a meaning and a purpose, it has become work…He thus acquires an objective vantage point from which to view his inner life and can now tackle the very thing he feared and hated.?’ (Collected Works, 4, 184-6)

Training

People training with the SAP have usually had a previous training in a related mental health profession. The training consists of a personal analysis, supervised work with patients and theoretical study of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas. The course explores Analytical Psychology and its links with, and divergence from, contemporary psychoanalytic thinking.

Talks and Workshops

Conferences, talks and workshops on Jungian theory and practice in Brighton, Cambridge, Leeds, London and Oxford.

A two term course ‘An Introduction to Jungian and Post-Jungian concepts’ will begin in London and Oxford in autumn 2005.
An annual lecture ‘Why live when you can be buried for ten dollars?’ A look at the death instinct and contemporary explanations of human destructiveness--October, ’05.

A supervision course, run successfully in 2004, will be repeated this autumn.

International Journal

The Journal of Analytical Psychology was launched in 1955 by a small group of members. It is the foremost international journal in the English language focusing on the clinical practice of Jungian analysis. It has special appeal to practitioners and those with experience of analysis, but its readership also includes scholars, historians, and students of Analytical Psychology.

THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Daleham Gardens
London NW35BY

Tel: 020 7435 7696
fax: 020 7431 1495

Clinic: 020 7419 8899

Training and Public Programme: 020 74198896

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