Announcing

New Certificate Program in Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

Chair: Janine Wanlass, Ph.D.

IPI is excited to announce a new certificate program in psychoanalytic couple therapy. This program is geared for 2 year Object Relations Theory and Practice program graduates (or the equivalent) who desire advanced training in couple treatment. Participants will complete six terms of the Foundations In Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy course by video or phone link, attend 2 couple, child, and family summer institutes, join us for one IPI child, couple, and family weekend conference, demonstrate competency in three supervised couple cases (35 hours each), present a couple case to peers, and complete two years of twice weekly psychoanalytically-based psychotherapy (or analysis). Affective small groups will take place during the summer institute and the IPI weekend conference. Each student will meet with an advisor on a bi-annual basis. Credit will be given for prior attendance in the couple therapy course. Full program cost is a total of the registration fees for the component parts. For more information and a program application, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 301-215-7377.

Summer Institute on Couple Psychotherapy

Join us in London!

THE UNCONSCIOUS WORLD OF THE COUPLE

July 18-21, 2011

Hosted by the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR)

Chair: Caroline Medawar, TCCR, Senior Couple Psychotherapist

IPI and TCCR are teaming together to provide an exciting exploration of the couple unconscious. Presenters will include Christel Buss-Twachtmann, Mary Morgan, Jo Rosenthall, and James Fisher (tentative) from TCCR and Jill and David Scharff, Janine Wanlass, Yolanda Varela, and Carl Bagnini from IPI. Topics will span discussion of couple dream work, the ways children unlock the couple unconscious, the location of desire in couple relating, unconscious beliefs about the couple relationship, brief couple work in the transference, and technical challenges in addressing the couple unconscious. A combination of lectures, discussion, clinical vignettes, video material, and a trip to the theatre will comprise the institute program. Small group discussions of clinical case material with IPI and TCCR staff will help participants integrate and apply the concepts learned. Registration deadline is June 25, 2011. Registration fee is £550 (approximately $885).

For more information on the institute, registration, location and lodging options, please contact IPI ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 301-215-7377).