IPTAR Bulletin - Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

“FriendlyVisitors” Program: An opportunity to work with the elderly
is available to candidates through the "Friendly Visitors" program at the
Hebrew Home for theAged. There is ongoing group and individual supervision.
Asylum-SeekersTreatment Program: In 2007,the ICC established the
Asylum-Seekers Treatment Program, which offers pro bono individual psychotherapy
to people seeking political asylum in the United States. Those seeking
asylum must prove that they have been tortured or abused in their
native country and/or are under the threat of being tortured or abused should
they return to the country of origin. The legal process of obtaining asylum is a
long and arduous one, which frequently results in retraumatizing or further
traumatizing the asylum seeker. The patients treated by this program have very
limited financial resources and suffer from the sequelae of severe psychological
abuse.
Ongoing research on the effectiveness of the treatment offered at the ICC is an
integral part of our program, and the ICC co-operates and offers support to
several ongoing research projects, including a study of children and adolescents
seen at the ICC to determine the effects of treatment on their lives and
functioning.
Therapists are eligible to attend workshops and seminars sponsored by the
ICC. All IPTAR candidates and members may become ICC therapists. Upon
graduation, candidates have the option to see their patients in their private
practices or to continue at the ICC.
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SECTION IV
THE IPTAR MEMBERSHIP SOCIETY
The IPTAR Society is a home for the community of IPTAR analysts. It offers
opportunities for the continual reworking of our psychoanalytic identity
through dialogue and reflection,in a dialectic between innovation and tradition.
Our ongoing psychoanalytic exploration is enhanced by a series of structured
programs, scientific meetings, workshops, study groups, research activities,
and publications.These are addressed to the IPTAR membership, to interested
analysts and analysts-in-training, and to the larger mental health community.
BECOMING AN IPTAR MEMBER
(Membership Chair, Florence Williams, M.A.)
Membership in the IPTAR Society is granted to psychoanalysts who are graduates
of IPTAR or of other recognized IPA-approved psychoanalytic institutes.
All Members of IPTAR are also members of the International Psychoanalytical
Association and may use the designation FIPA (Fellow of the International
Psychoanalytical Association).
The Membership Chairperson processes applications for membership. Those
seeking membership who are not IPTAR graduates are asked to submit a detailed
curriculum vitae, evidence of an acceptable personal psychoanalysis
(training analysis), and the record of psychoanalytic training including affirmation
of acceptable supervised (control) analyses. In addition, two personal interviews
are held with members of the IPTAR Society. In some cases,the Society
Board may ask the applicant to present a psychoanalytic treatment case before
a committee. Upon satisfactory completion of the application process, membership
is determined by a vote of the Society Board. An affirmative vote
grants Associate Membership.
Membership in the IPTAR Society evolves through three levels, reflecting
stages of increasing familiarity with and participation in the IPTAR community.
Opportunities for progression proceed from an initial involvement in the work
of committees, through deepening understanding of one another's clinical and
theoretical work via study groups, psychoanalytic meetings, and workshops,
to participation on the boards of the Clinical Center, Institute, and Society.
Membership begins at the Associate level and remains at this level for at least
one year. There are a number of avenues available to become a Full Member
of the Society. One is for Associate Members to prepare a paper on a topic
of particular interest to them reflecting their theoretical and clinical thinking on
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