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Board
of Trustees
Hon. Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D.,Psy.D. ex officio
Andrea DeLuca, M.S.W., M.S.Ed., Psa.D.
Susan Kavaler-Adler,
Ph.D., Litt.D., ABPP
Michael
Regan, M.Div., M.S.A., D.D., C.P.A.
Rocco Spinelli,
R.N., M.A.., D.D.
Rev. Michael Verra, D.D.
Frank Voyticky, J.D., LL.D.
Jason Wall
Steve Zuckermann,
Ph.D., L.H.D.
In memoriam:
Richard Reigi, J.D., LL.D.; Robert Amoury, J.D., LL.D.; Ronald Cross, Ph.D., Mus.D.
Counsel
Eric Gansberg,
Esq.
Charles Weitman, LL.D., Esq.
PROGRAM IN
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Anthony J. DeLuca, Ph.D,
Dean
Senior Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Andrea DeLuca,
M.S.W., M.S.Ed. Richard Cohen, M.S.W.,
L.H.D.
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D. Doris Kimmich, M.S.W. , L.H.D.
Otto Ehrenberg,
Ph.D. Linda
Orber, M.A.
Edward Emery, Ph.D. Gloria
Rich, Ph.D.
Susan Kavaler-Adler,
Ph.D. Carl Stallmann, Ph.D.
Zvi Lothane, M.D. Sharon
Weinstein, M.S. Ed.
Inna Rosentsvit,
M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., M.Ed.
Sylvester Wojtkowski,
Ph.D.
Steve Zuckermann,
Ph.D.
Committees
Training
Continuing Education
Richard
Cohen, M.S.W.,
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D.
Andrea
DeLuca, M.S.W.
Edward Emery, Ph.D., Co-chair
Anthony
DeLuca, Ph.D., Chair Steve
Zuckermann, Ph.D., Co-chair
Faculty and Curriculum
Publications
Andrea
DeLuca, M.S.W.
Anthony
DeLuca, Ph.D.
Anthony
DeLuca, Ph.D., Chair
Edward Emery, Ph.D.
Zvi Lothane,
M.D.
Zvi Lothane, M.D.
Admissions
Ethics
Richard
Cohen, M.S.W. Chair
Antoinette DeLuca, Psy.D.
Anthony
DeLuca, Ph.D. Otto Ehrenberg, Ph.D.
Doris Kimmich, M.S.W.
Doris Kimmich, M.S.W.
Zvi Lothane,
M.D.
Charles Weitman, J.D.
Carl Stallmann, Ph.D.
Steve Zuckermann, Ph.D., Chair
HISTORY
The International School for Mental
Health Practitioners first began offering advanced training courses for
professionals on Staten Island in 1975 and then began workshops in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania in 1978. The School was provisionally chartered by the
Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1981 and has been renewed
by the State Education Department for the last quarter century. ISMHP was
approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing
education of psychologists in 1982 and became a member organization of the
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 2005. The Deputy
Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, Office of the Professions, New
York State Department of Education has registered the psychoanalytic program as
meeting the requirements towards the state license in psychoanalysis in
November 2005. ISMHP offers workshops to
diplomats at the United Nations and provides consultation gratis to third world countries on the setting-up of mental health
education and programs.
PHILOSOPHY
International School for Mental Health
Practitioners was founded in order to provide advanced training to all those
engaged in the alleviation of emotional disorders. We are International because knowledge, wisdom and expertise are not
limited by geographical boundaries or by time or place; we hope to assimilate
the best that is available in an ongoing dialectic. We are a School
or a place where teacher and student may meet in order to learn;
it is a place where ideas, theories and techniques, both old and new, are
explored. No one school of thought is the repository of truth; history bears
witness to this fact.
It is the purpose of the International
School to make available to the students the major theories, techniques and
practices of psychoanalysis. In this way, the practitioner may select which
approach or combination of approaches he/ she is most
comfortable with and will be of most benefit to the patient.
The School maintains a required
educational curriculum which follows the guidelines of the New York State
Education Department for a graduate to meet the educational requirements which
are pre-requisite to the licensing examination and licensing in psychoanalysis.
"In a strange way the analyst becomes a silent actor in
a play the patient is creating. The analyst does not act in the drama; he tries
to remain the shadowy figure the patient needs for his fantasies. Yet the
analyst helps in the creation of the character, working out the details by his
insight, empathy and intuition. In a sense he becomes a kind of stage director
in the situation- a vital part of the play, but not an actor. Or he is like a
conductor of a symphony orchestra. He does not write the music, but he clarifies
and interprets it. By the use of his creative imagination the analyst
participates in the patient's fantasies as a clarifier and interpreter, not as
an accomplice or provocateur." (Greenson,
1967).
FACILITY
International School for Mental Health
Practitioners has been located in the same building for nearly thirty years.
The facility has ten rooms: treatment rooms, class rooms, a secretarial station
with modern office equipment, computer room for students, closed circuit t.v. rooms, modest library with psychoanalytic periodicals
and books, art gallery and cloistered garden. With the growth of the internet,
every student has the largest library collection in the world at his /her finger tips. A seminar is provided, in addition to the
required course Information Systems and
Computer Applications, where internet resources for psychoanalytic research
are provided.
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROGRAM
The training in psychoanalysis is an
intensive three year program in which the student obtains a general
understanding of the major psychoanalytic theories and techniques as well as
ample opportunity to practice under supervision of senior psychoanalysts.
Concern is always maintained for scientific methodology and ethical issues.
And perhaps most importantly, this
learning experience takes place within the matrix of the student being an analysand thus continuing the classical wisdom of
"Know thyself;" and ancient oaths: " But from what is to their
harm or injustice, I will keep them;" and biblical insights: "
Physician heal thyself;" " Why look at the mote that is in your
brother's eye, but not consider the beam that is in your own eye? Or how can
you say to your brother, let me pull the mote out of your eye; and there is a
beam in your own eye? Hypocrite. First cast out the
beam from your own eye; and then you will see clearly how to cast out the mote
from your brother's eye."
1. Patients are assessed and evaluated
by the Institute's licensed staff and assigned to students.
2. Students provide service in the
Institute's offices under the supervision of a licensed professional qualified
to practice psychoanalysis.
3. Students never provide services in a
private office which the student owns or operates.
4. Payment for services is made to the
Institute which may provide a stipend to the student,
and
5. Communications and written materials
clearly state to the patient that the treatment is being provided by a student
and that the student is supervised by a licensed professional who is qualified
in the practice of psychoanalysis.
ADMISSION
Applicants may be those licensed from
any of the related health service professions with a master's degree or those who hold a master's degree from
a regionally accredited university or the foreign equivalent with a minimum 3.0
index. It is highly recommended, but not required, that the applicant already
have two years of supervised experience in psychotherapy. Since research is an important part of the
curriculum at ISMHP, the applicant must have completed a course in Information
Systems and Computer Applications or the
equivalent. Where this skill is missing, ISMHP will provide the course before
or during the first semester. Or the student may demonstrate proficiency by
passing the CLEP examination in this area; ISMHP will provide direction on this
procedure.
The Admissions Committee is composed of members representing the major
mental health disciplines. If there is no committee member from the applicant's
discipline, a psychoanalyst from that discipline may be added to compose a
panel of three. The Dean, for serious cause, may reverse the decision of the
committee. An applicant may appeal a negative decision of the Admissions
Committee and a new panel be appointed. The decision of the second panel is
final.
An applicant may re-apply, unless
otherwise informed, after one year.
Applications are
made to the Admissions Committee, ISMHP,
2295 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York 10314.
TRAINING PROGRAM
The training is designed to further the
acquisition of psychoanalytic skill and knowledge through:
1. Course Work
2. Supervision
3. Personal Psychoanalysis
The organization of the courses is
governed by the ideas that learning is most meaningful when it arises directly
from the problems and challenges of clinical practice. Through the coordination
of clinical material, related theory, and personal experience, the process of
learning is guided by therapeutic and personal needs.
FEES
1. A 100. Application Fee must be included with the application form.
2. Required Admissions Committee
Interviews is $150 due at the time of application.
3. Student Appeal Reevaluation is $300.
4. Registration / Maintenance is $100 per semester (4 semesters/ year) till program is
completed.
5. Course Tuition is $600 per course
(45 clock hours); Weekly group/lab component of each course is $15 / session to
ISMHP. $600 for Information Systems &
Computer Applications
course, if not taken before admission.
6. Psychoanalytic Supervision Fee: This fee is paid directly to the supervisor by ISMHP. However, the student is expected to pay a supervision tuition fee of $40 for each session to ISMHP toward meeting the total supervision fee.
7. Personal Psychoanalysis fee is
arranged with Training Analyst within guidelines of ISMHP. (sliding
scale)
8. The students renders 300 clock hours
of treatment of patients as part of the supervised educational requirement; all
fees generated from patients are payable to ISMHP.
9. Refund
Policy: Application Fee, Admissions Committee Interviews, Registration /
Maintenance, lab, and supervision are all non-refundable. Tuition is 90% refundable before the first
class; 50% refundable before the first quarter of
semester; and no refund after the first quarter.
10. Psychoanalysis 509 Research, Law,
Ethics is twice the
amount of the current course rate and may be in partial payments
distributed over the three years.
11. Incomplete Course Work: Under
extraordinary circumstances and reasons, ISMHP may grant a student an
Incomplete (INC) for a course not completed on time. There is a $25 fee charged
for each week during the incomplete status. The extension may not exceed 15
weeks; beyond that time for good cause a "W" (Withdraw) is entered;
for insufficient cause an "F" is recorded; and the course needs to be
repeated with full tuition fee in both cases.
COMPLIANCE
ISMHP, in compliance with Title VI of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1973, does
not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or physical
or mental handicap in any of its policies, practices and procedures. These
policies and procedures include, but are not limited to admission, employment,
financial aid, and educational services.
COURSE WORK
The minimal program consists of ten courses, each consisting of 45 clock
hours. The schedule of the three years illustrates the distribution of courses
over time. Each course provides specific requirement
information, such as examinations and term paper and how evaluation of the student is made. Exams are graded by the entire
faculty. There is a Group / Lab section attached to each of the courses wherein
application of specific theoretical material is explored. The candidate is not
required to discuss material that she / he wishes to
treat solely in the private dydactic analysis.
Contents of the Group / Lab portion are not discussed outside the Group / Lab
nor used in evaluating the candidate in any way. In addition, at the end of
each course, the student submits an evaluation
of the course and instructor.
In special cases, work taken at other
registered institutes, before matriculation at ISMHP, may be credited, if they
match our program.
SUPERVISED ANALYSIS
There must be 150 clock hours of
supervised analysis of the student's psychoanalytic cases as follows: 50 clock
hours of individual supervision with one supervisor working on one case; and at
least 100 clock hours of individual supervision with another
supervisor working on one or more additional cases. Supervisors are assigned by
ISMHP.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
There is required at least 300 clock
hours of supervised clinical experience in the practice of psychoanalysis. Please note: a total of 1500 hours of supervised clinical
experience in psychoanalysis are required for licensing but not ISMHP
graduation. ISMHP will attempt to provide this additional experience but cannot
guarantee that the volume of patient referral will always be available within
the intensive three year educational program. Other resources might be called
upon to meet the missing hours.
PERSONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS
The personal psychoanalysis must be
with one having a certificate in psychoanalysis approved by ISMHP. Candidates
must have a minimum of 300 clock hours of personal psychoanalysis. The Training
Psychoanalyst will not report to the School on the progress of the candidate
nor will he /
she participate in administrative decisions with respect to the
candidate. A training psychoanalyst must be so designated at this School or at
a recognized institute who has had ten years of experience. Analysts from
outside the School must be approved by the Dean. Previous analysis will be
accepted at the discretion of the Dean. An extensive list of Training Analysts
is provided to the student.
REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION
1. Successful completion of all
required courses (450 clock hours) and "B" average is required in
course work. In addition, the student must have two hours in Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse
and Maltreatment. ISMHP recommends this be completed at the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (212) 233 5500 x 219 or
another approved agency.
2. Successful completion of 150 clock hours
of supervised analysis of student's psychoanalytic cases.
3. Successful completion of 300 clock
hours of supervised clinical experience in the practice of psychoanalysis.
4. Completion of 300 hours of personal
psychoanalysis.
5. Successful Case Presentation of a
case report of a patient in psychoanalysis for at least two years seen twice a
week or more.
6. A detailed proposal for a Doctoral
Dissertation in Psychoanalysis including the Methodology to be employed, if you
were to carry out the proposal.
7. The evaluations of the Instructors,
Supervisors, and Dean are submitted to the Board of Trustees for final
approval.
Upon meeting the requirements, the
candidate will receive at graduation the Advanced
Certificate in Psychoanalysis approved by the New York State Office of
Higher Education.
To meet the experience requirement for
licensure as a Psychoanalyst, you must complete at least 1,500 contact hours of
supervised experience in the practice of Psychoanalysis. The experience may
only be completed under a limited permit issued by the Department or as part of
the licensure qualifying education program, for experience in New York;
experience completed in other jurisdictions must be completed legally in
accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction. You and your supervisor must
submit documentation of completion of a supervised experience of at least 1,500
clock hours providing Psychoanalysis in a setting acceptable to the Department.
Supervised experience obtained in the education program required for licensure
as a psychoanalyst may meet all or part of this requirement but must be
documented by the supervisor on Form 4B.
The practice of psychoanalysis is defined as:
- the observation, description, evaluation, and interpretation of dynamic
unconscious mental processes that contribute to the formation of personality
and behavior in order to identify and resolve unconscious psychic problems
which affect interpersonal relationships and emotional development, to
facilitate changes in personality and behavior through the use of verbal and
nonverbal cognitive and emotional communication, and to develop adaptive
functioning; and
- the use of assessment instruments and mental health counseling and
psychotherapy to identify, evaluate and treat dysfunctions and disorders for
purposes of providing appropriate psychoanalytic services.
Not less than 750 clock hours of such required experience must consist of
direct contact with clients. The remaining experience may consist of other
activities that do not involve direct client contact, including but not limited
to, supervision, personal analysis and professional development.
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Students may apply to the joint
doctoral program of
Last Updated: 10/01/11