The University
of Utah
Contact: Lorna Smith Benjamin,
Ph.D.
Email: p.kerig@psych.utah.edu
Phone: 801-581-4463
FAX: 801-581-5841
Address: University of Utah
Department of Psychology
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
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?
No
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 [Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy
(IRT) combines psychodynamic and CBT variants]
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:
Although the focus of Utah’s clinical program
is on training students in evidence-based practice and the majority of the core faculty teach cognitive and behavioral approaches
to treatment, there are opportunities for students to be exposed to psychoanalytic theory in our graduate program. In
particular, our faculty includes clinicians and researchers who are inspired by the work of psychoanalyst John Bowlby, the
originator of the attachment construct. Quality of attachment has a well-documented impact on normal and abnormal development
and Bowlby’s ideas have many applications to child and family work as well as to individual psychotherapy with adults.
One of many simple but important ideas from the attachment literature is that our ways of relating to family follow us through
life, including into marriage, relationships at work, and psychotherapy. For students especially interested in relationship
factors in psychotherapy, one of our faculty members, Lorna Benjamin, is a specialist in interpersonal theory and measurement,
with an emphasis on work with personality disorder and treatment-resistant complex cases.
Contact Person:
Lorna Smith Benjamin, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801-581-4463
