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Psychoanalysis is a specific form of individual psychotherapy that aims to bring unconscious mental elements and processes into awareness in order to expand an individual’s self-understanding, enhance adaptation in multiple spheres of functioning, alleviate symptoms of mental disorder, and facilitate character change and emotional growth. Psychoanalytic work is characterized by depth and intensity which are achieved in the context of frequent treatment sessions over a long term. It is expected that training institutes seeking accreditation will ensure that candidates in training shall have a personal psychoanalytic experience of frequency, depth, intensity and duration adequate to provide a deep psychoanalytic experience and that their treatment of patients under supervision will have similar characteristics. The Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education recognizes that as different psychoanalytic educational traditions have evolved there has been a parallel development of standards regarding how the provision of a deep psychoanalytic experience can best be accomplished. Those standards may be more specific or broader but may not be lower than or in conflict with the core standards delineated in this document. Institutes that seek accreditation for training in child and adolescent psychoanalysis will be required to meet these and additional standards that are to be delineated in a separate document.
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