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Analyst Training Program

In our age of anxiety, questions of life’s meaning, concerns about an attitude to life, and the search for deep soulful connections are often at the heart of emotional struggles. The Analyst Training Program (ATP) of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago recognizes the nature of these issues in many individuals’ lives and trains experienced clinicians to be able to work interpersonally with people on such a search. The ATP training process envisions the transformation of these clinicians into people who are well connected to their own emotional life, have a grounded perspective on the nature of psychic life, and can relate empathically to the pain, struggles, delights and joys of other’s lives.

This four- to seven-year training program is grounded in the theoretical perspective of Analytical Psychology, which was initially conceptualized by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung and has been further developed by various international clinicians. It respects the complexity of our cognitive and emotional life, our individual psyche. It recognizes the energetic dynamic of the personal and the collective unconscious. It respects and engages the affects and powers of the archetypal/spiritual world so clearly acknowledged by world religions. Symbols and images as they appear in dreams, fantasies, drawings, sand-trays, and reverie are seen as dynamic communications from the unconscious that when embraced transform consciousness. It also recognizes the interference of personal complexes in living a mature, embodied life and identifies various ways to enable consciousness to mitigate their negative influence. Analytical Psychology provides a perspective unique to clinical training to work with complex psychological dynamics that requires the engagement with unconscious dynamics.

The Analyst Training Program is designed to make analytic training available to all qualified applicants. Our Hybrid Model training year allows training to fit into one’s professional life, with five (5) monthly weekend intensives online and four (4) in-person.* Online ATP training weekends take place via Zoom. Our location in "the Loop" has convenient access to public transportation, both O'Hare and Midway airports, and both Ogilvie Transportation Center and Union Station (Amtrak/Metra trains and long-distance buses), and we have discount rates at Club Quarters Hotel. All classes and events are accessible.

The course instruction in the first four years of training occurs in nine (9) monthly training weekends, September through May, typically the second weekend of the month. The 3-day ATP training weekends span from Friday morning through Sunday afternoon, with the online and in-person schedules differing slightly.* Additional classes meet online on Fridays between monthly training weekends. Each month, a total of 22 hours are instructional. This schedule is designed to enable the practicing clinician to train, even when living at some distance from Chicago. Please see the Schedule & Tuition tab above for details.

*Currently, all ATP training weekends are being held online due to COVID-19.

Upon completion of the training, the clinician is certified as a Jungian Psychoanalyst. ATP graduates are eligible for membership in the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts (CSJA), the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). Please note: While graduation from the ATP at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago guarantees eligibility to apply for membership in the CSJA and the IAAP, we do not guarantee eligibility for membership in other Jungian Institutes that may have other requirements for membership.

The application deadline for beginning in September is the preceding January 15. For additional information, please see the Apply/Contact tab above.

Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for course work. The Institute is approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to provide CE credits for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors. The C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Elements of the Training Program

The Analyst Training Program aims for the transformation of the clinician through a multi-year training experience which includes at least weekly personal analysis, weekly consultation (supervision), a personal evaluative process with monitoring committees throughout training, four years of course work totaling 700 hours, three sets of exams, two final Analytic Process Reports of 30–50 pages each, and a final Thesis of 50–100 pages.

Personal Analysis: The heart of the transformation and the training to be an analyst is the personal analysis. Here clinicians experience the workings of the psyche and the ability of the Self in analytic work to bring new life and energy. Here too clinicians discover and clarify the dynamics of their complexes, embrace vulnerability, and engage deep feelings. In analysis they become more authentically human as people and future analysts. Personal analysis can be done with any member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Consultation (Supervision): In consultation, the interpersonal relationship of candidates with their clients/analysands and both individuals’ relationship with unconscious archetypal energies, including the Self, are closely observed, since these relationships are at the heart of the change process. Consultation is required weekly, beginning with Practice Consultation and moving toward Control Analysis in which two or three cases are followed weekly over a two- or three-year period. It is in the consultation that the theory of Analytical Psychology comes alive.

Evaluation: There are three monitoring committees, corresponding with the three stages of ATP training: the Admissions Committee, which meets with applicants and matriculated auditors in the Preliminary Stage; the Candidacy Committee with candidates in the Candidacy Stage; and the Certifying Committee with senior candidates in the Control Stage. Monitoring committees at each stage of training evaluate with the candidates their progress, noting the changes attained and the challenges requiring additional work. The focus is the personal growth of the candidate towards an analytic way of being. It is in the work with the monitoring committees that the candidates often feel more clearly seen and accepted for their strengths and their weaknesses. Both positive and negative shadow material, which was not previously seen, becomes known, enabling a more authentic presence in all relationships.

The Curriculum: Unique to the Chicago training program is a focus upon a systematic reading of the writings of Carl Jung, much of which are contained in The Collected Works, various published seminars, and Jung’s extensive correspondence. By the end of four years, candidates will have read most of his writings and will know how he developed his theory. A second track of courses comprise the Theory & Practice section of the Curriculum. This is a four-year sequence of courses on foundational, core, and advanced concepts in Analytical Psychology. A third track of the curriculum deals with various topics that are of interest to candidates and analyst instructors at the time. Finally, each training weekend includes an Analytic Process Colloquium and a Process Group. Because the same 10–15 candidates are in most courses, the learning environment is very personal and collegial. Often relationships are built that continue for the rest of their professional lives. For further information, please see the Curriculum tab above.

Class sizes are small, held in our beautiful smart conference room in the historic Monadnock building. Click here to take a virtual tour.

Admissions Requirements

Admission to the Analyst Training Program: Applications for the Analyst Training Program are accepted any time up to the January 15 deadline for admission the following September. The Admissions Committee reviews and assesses all applicants on the basis of their personal maturity, psychological readiness, and academic ability to successfully engage professional training for the practice of Jungian psychoanalysis. Admissions requirements, which must be fulfilled by the application deadline, include:

1. A minimum of 100 hours of in-depth personal analysis with an IAAP-certified Jungian analyst within the past five years (25 of those hours must be face-to-face**; 75 hours may be via electronic media), and continuing analysis throughout the application period;

2. A basic knowledge of Analytical Psychology through reading and lectures;

3. Clinical experience practicing long-term psychotherapy beyond licensure;

4. State licensure in mental health in the jurisdiction in which the applicant practices, e.g., clinical psychologist (PhD or PsyD), psychiatrist (MD or DO), clinical social worker (LCSW), clinical professional counselor (LCPC), marriage and family therapist (LMFT), or psychiatric nurse (MSN).

**Due to COVID-19, we have temporarily suspended the requirement that at least 25 hours of analysis must be face-to-face.

Certification Requirements

1. Weekly personal analysis with an IAAP-certified Jungian analyst through all the years while in the ATP, including leaves of absences;

2. The completion of the Analyst Training Program’s four-year curriculum involving a minimum of 700 hours of class time;

3. Completion of a Candidacy Paper;

4. Weekly consultation throughout training totaling a minimum of 200 hours. Of those hours, 100 are required to be during the Control Stage. Fifty (50) hours of Control Analysis are to be dedicated to a single case with a single Control Analyst, and 25 hours are to be with a Control Analyst other than the one with whom the candidate has consulted most during the Control Stage (see Section 5 of the Analyst Training Program Handbook for the acceptable distribution of hours using electronic media). The other 25 hours may be with either of those Control Analyst, or with a different Control Analyst;

5. Attendance at all Analytic Process Colloquia, including attending 10 in person and the others by video conference, unless excused by the Director of Training;

6. Presentation of your analytic work with three analysands at three Analytic Process Colloquia while in the Control Stage;

7. The successful completion of an intermediate five-part exam (two written and three oral) on the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology, called the Propaedeuticum Exams;

8. The approval by each monitoring committee and the Training Committee that 1) their expectations of the candidate as articulated in their reports have been met satisfactorily, and 2) the candidate is advanced to the next stage;

9. The successful completion of the Analytic Process Exam and the Thesis Exam;

10. Payment of all required fees.

For additional details, please see the Analyst Training Program Handbook in the Handbook tab above.