Training analysis

A training analysis is a psychoanalysis undergone by a candidate (usually a physician with specialty in psychiatry) as a part of her/his training to be a psychoanalyst; the (senior) psychoanalyst who performs such an analysis is called a training analyst. A training analysis is different both from a psychoanalysis performed for the "therapeutic treatment of a patient" and from psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A training analysis is also different from psychoanalysis performed by the psychoanalyst-in-training on a patient and supervised by a supervising analyst. A candidate in training typically analyzes a number patients for three or four years. The latter analysis are offered as "low fee analysis" in the various psychoanalytic institutes affiliated with the American Psychoanalytic Association.

See also

• Lay analysis
• American Psychoanalytic Association

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