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The goal of the HSPGP training program is the complete training of mental health professionals in psychoanalytic group psychotherapy and includes:
– Participation of at least five years in a total of two hundred, 90 minute sessions of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy
– A total of a 100 two hour theoretical seminars on the introduction to psychoanalytic theory, the introduction to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy and matters of technique (for four years)
-Clinical supervision (for the last three years of the training)
-Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy Observation during the 3rd year of training (40 ninety minute sessions)
-During the 4th and 5th year the trainees are asked to start working with groups as therapists, while being under supervision with a training group analyst from the HSPGP, and to submit and present a clinical/theoretical essay ( of 8000 words)
Selection requirements for Training Candidates
Candidates accepted for the training Program in Experiential Introduction to Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy (after an interview with two members of the Society and after the Society has decided) are : Psychologists, psychiatrists , psychiatric social workers and psychiatric nurses with an academic training , who wish to train in groups.
Necessary requirements for candidates to be accepted in the main HSGP Training Program is to a) have completed the Foundation Training of the Experiential Introduction to Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy and b) to have undergone or to already be in individual psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Association or the Hellenic Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy or another equivalent Association of a different country.
With seven years of experience running the Educational Program and based on the findings from its evaluation, the Theoretical Courses of the HSPGP will change starting in September 2022.
In the new Program, the three major Modules (Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory, Introduction to Group Psychoanalytic Theory, Technical Issues) remain, but a further semester is added to the third. Thus, each module will henceforth cover three semesters.
The courses in the second and third modules are grouped into sub-modules. Some sub-modules begin in one semester and are completed in the next. Each sub-module begins with an introductory course taught by the course coordinator and ends with a theoretical processing course. Theoretical processing courses are also available in the first module.
The Theoretical Processing courses aim to support the process of subjectification of theory by the trainees. In other words, they constitute frameworks for open dialogue in a group setting, where trainees are invited to connect the theory with personal group experiences, as participants or observers, in order to better assimilate the theory and to give meaning or re-meaning to these experiences in the light of the theory.
For the teaching of theoretical courses, the HSPGP has collaborated and continues to collaborate with members of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society (EPS) and the Hellenic Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EEP). The new program also inaugurates collaboration with members of the Hellenic Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (EEP).
It should be emphasized that the Theoretical Courses are an integral and very important part of the HSPGP Educational Program. Trainees are required not only to attend these courses regularly, but also – apart from the lecturers of each course – to prepare themselves by studying the recommended bibliography.
Furthermore, each lecturer must send the text of the lecture at least ten days before the presentation to the Course Coordinator for any comments and remarks on his part – so that he can incorporate them into it – and at least three days before the course, to the other participants.