Argosy University

Contact: Scott D. Pytluk, Ph.D., Coordinator of Psychoanalytic Concentration

Email: spytluk@argosy.edu

Phone: 312-777-7693

FAX:

Address: Argosy University

225 North Michigan Avenue, 13^th Floor

Chicago, IL 60601

Survey Results:

Is your doctoral program accredited by the American Psychological Association? 

Yes

Is your program considered open to and inclusive of Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic theory and practice? 

Yes

Does your program have any faculty that are certified psychoanalysts, or in psychoanalytical training? 

Yes

Does your program have psychoanalytically-oriented faculty, and include psychoanalytical thought in their courses? 

Yes

Does your program require introductory courses on psychoanalytical theories and psychotherapy? 

No

Which psychoanalytical theoretical perspectives does your Program offer?

Freudian/Classical,

Ego Psychology,

Object-relations,

Self-psychology,

 Other perspectives [Relational] 

Does your program cover special topics from psychoanalytical perspectives such as treatment of severe psychopathology, race, class, gender/sexuality, dreams, supervision, transference/counter-transference? 

Yes

Does your program require courses on short-term psychotherapy and crisis intervention that include psychoanalytical perspectives? 

No

Program Description Provided by the Institution: 

Psychoanalytic Concentration (option for PsyD program)

Department of Clinical Psychology

Argosy University

225 North Michigan Avenue, 13^th Floor

Chicago, IL 60601

Campus Main Phone Number:  312-777-7600

Scott D. Pytluk, Ph.D., Coordinator of Psychoanalytic Concentration

spytluk@argosy.edu; 312-777-7693

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PURPOSE:

The Psychoanalytic Psychology Concentration is designed to meet the need for education and training in assessment, intervention and supervision within a broad psychoanalytic model.  The curriculum provides a firm grounding in major theoretical paradigms with special attention to those which are current and emerging.

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CONSIDERATIONS:

·         Graduates of the Psychoanalytic Concentration will be prepared to work effectively within a psychoanalytic framework and begin postdoctoral training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

·         Issues of difference and diversity (e.g. race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, social class) will be addressed throughout the Concentration’s curriculum.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Three courses are required to satisfy the requirements of the Concentration:

• Psychoanalytic Theory & Therapy  (Basic Intervention course)
• Advanced Psychoanalytic Therapy & Supervision (Advanced Intervention course)
• Three additional credits comprised of either one (3-credit) or two (1.5-credit) courses from the following list, but only when taught by a psychoanalytically-oriented faculty member. (These courses fall under either General or Diversity elective status in the curriculum.): 

Psychoanalysis & Diversity

Psychology of Gender

Child Psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis & The Cinema

Advanced Assessment: Rorschach

Clinical Use of Dreams

Addictive Disorders

Eating Disorders

Child Psychotherapy

The Counter-transference Experience

Group Psychotherapy 

CLINICAL TRAINING:

PRACTICA

An essential aspect of professional education and development is supervised practice in clinical intervention.  Students are required to engage in two, yearlong practicum experiences.  Students should choose training sites at a variety of mental health facilities where licensed clinical psychologists who are psychoanalytically oriented conduct supervision.

SEMINAR:

Students must take the Diagnostic and Psychotherapy Seminars concurrent with practica and should take these with a psychoanalytically oriented faculty member.  The primary focus of these seminars is clinical study using taped material from the students’ practica.  The seminar faculty serve as role models for integration of practice and theory in psychoanalytic psychology.

INTERNSHIPS:

Students in the Psychoanalytic Concentration are encouraged to choose an internship that will provide supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

CLINICAL RESEARCH PROJECT:

Each student in the concentration is required to choose a psychoanalytically oriented topic for the Clinical Research Project (CRP) and to choose a ‘Chair’ who is psychoanalytically oriented.

PERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY & EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS

The psychoanalytic faculty strongly encourages students to participate in their own individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis as an important aspect of students’ personal and professional development.  Faculty will make appropriate referrals at the student’s request.

Additionally, students are urged to join local psychoanalytic professional organizations (e.g., Chicago Association of Psychoanalytic Psychology [CAPP]) and/or participate in their programming.  Further, students in the concentration should consider submitting applications for the various psychoanalytic mentorship/fellowship programs in the Chicago area (e.g., Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis [CCP] or the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis).

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CORE FACULTY:                                                              ADJUNCT FACULTY:

Scott Pytluk, Ph.D., Coordinator                                           Mary Connors, Ph.D., ABPP

Kathy Goggin, Psy.D.

Mark Kiel, Psy.D.

Myra Lawrence, Psy.D.

Peter Reiner, Ph.D

Neal Rubin, Ph.D.

Andy Suth, Ph.D.      

Court Tisdale, Ph.D.

Kaveh Zamanian, Ph.D.

***PLEASE CONTACT DR. PYTLUK at spytluk@argosy.edu or 312-777-7693 with questions.