University of Indianapolis
Contact: David L. Downing,
Psy.D., ABPP
Email: ddowning@uindy.edu
Phone: 317-788-6162
FAX: 317-788-2120
Address: University of Indianapolis
School of Psychological Sciences
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46227
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?
Yes
Which psychoanalytical theoretical perspectives does your Program offer? Freudian/Classical,
Ego Psychology,
Object-relations,
Self-psychology,
Lacanian,
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?
Yes
Program Description Provided by the Institution:
The School
of Psychological Sciences [SoPS], University of Indianapolis, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology [PsyD] is fully-accredited
by the American Psychological Association. The SoPS also has a Master of Arts
in Clinical Psychology [MA] program that leads to eligibility for licensure in the state of Indiana as a Mental Health Counsellor.
The doctoral
program requires all students to take an introductory course in psychoanalytical theories and psychotherapy. A course in short-term psychotherapy and crisis intervention is required, and is taught from entirely psychoanalytical
perspectives. Students receive a firm grounding in Freudian perspectives, as
well as object-relations theories, and self-psychology. An introduction to Lacan
is also offered. More psychoanalytically-oriented electives include: Advanced
Projective Assessment; Psychoanalytical Treatment of Borderline Personality Organisation; Psychoanalytical Treatment of Psychosis;
and Clinical Hypnosis. Instructors include fully certified psychoanalysts, as
well as psychoanalytically-oriented faculty. Indianapolis has a very active local
Chapter of Division 39 [Psychoanalysis] of the American Psychological Association which holds monthly meetings. Students would be able to receive personal psychoanalysis or psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy
during their course of study with one of several psychoanalysts or many psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians in the Indianapolis
area. Additionally, the SoPS, in association with the Indiana Society for Psychoanalytical
Thought, has provided continuing education programming with nationally and internationally recognised psychoanalysts on a
yearly basis.
For additional
information, contact:
David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP
Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and Professor
University of Indianapolis
School of Psychological Sciences
1400 East Hanna Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46227
317.788.6162 [telephone]
317.788.2120 [facsimile]
ddowning@uindy.edu [electronic-mail]
http://www.psych.uindy.edu [School of Psychological Sciences web-site]
