A structure of the training and competencies in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

The paper deals with a structure of the training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (PAPT) and its connection with a competence model that has not been much used in this direction in our conditions. It attempts to outline individual competencies of a psychoanalytic psychotherapist divided into general competencies common for all psychotherapeutic approaches dealing with a longer-term therapeutic relationship, and special competencies specific for psychoanalytic (or psychodynamic) psychotherapy. It describes how a particular course of the training in PAPT is adapted to focus on these specific competencies, especially by length and continuity of self-experience and afterwards supervision part. It tries to assign attaining of all competencies to the individual phases of the training. It also discusses an evaluation of acquired competencies that takes place mainly in long supervision part of the training, beginning with a decision of admitting a candidate to this part of the training that is not taken for granted.

Dana Holubová,Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (www.cspap.cz), Praha, Czech Republic e-mail: kuldik@post.cz