Education & Training

NIPaS Trainings

NIPaS offers core training in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

We also offer an Integrated Training Programme in Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and an Advanced Entry Scheme for training in Psychoanalysis.

NIPaS Training in Psychoanalysis

This guide sets out the regulations governing the training in psychoanalysis available through NIPaS. The programme of training for membership of NIPaS normally lasts a minimum of four years. Qualified psychoanalyst Members of NIPaS become Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and are registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). The member organizations of the BPC are those with the most rigorous selection and training standards in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.

Advanced Entry Training Scheme

The Northern Ireland Psychoanalytic Society (NIPaS) offers an Advanced Entry Scheme of training in the psychoanalysis of adults.

Who is it for?

The aim of this scheme is to enable qualified child and adolescent psychotherapists (members in good standing of the Association of Child Psychotherapists) and experienced adult psychotherapists who are not registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) to complete a shortened top-up training as an adult psychoanalyst. Qualified psychoanalyst Members of NIPaS become Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and Registrants of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). The member organizations of the BPC are those with the most rigorous selection and training standards in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

This guide sets out the regulations governing the training in psychodynamic psychotherapy available through NIPaS, which normally lasts a minimum of four years. Graduates of this training are eligible for registration with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) (subject to formal approval by the BPC). The member organizations of the BPC are those with the most rigorous selection and training standards in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.

Integrated Training Programme in Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis

This guide sets out the regulations governing the integrated training in both adult and child & adolescent (C & A) psychoanalysis available through NIPaS. This programme of training normally lasts a minimum of four years. Qualified psychoanalyst Members of NIPaS become Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and Registrants of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). The member organizations of the BPC are those with the most rigorous selection and training standards in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the United Kingdom.