(718) 698- 0700
Board of
Trustees
Ronald Cross, Ph.D.
Hon. Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D., ex officio
Andrea DeLuca,
M.S.W., M.S.Ed.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., Litt.D., ABPP
Michael Regan, M.Div., M.S.A., C.P.A.
Rev. Michael Verra, D.D.
Francis Voyticky, J.D.
Jason Wall
Steve Zuckermann, Ph.D.
Counsel
Eric Gansberg, Esq.
Charles Weitman, Esq.
PROGRAM IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Anthony J. DeLuca, Ph.D, Dean
Senior Faculty Adjunct Faculty
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D.
Richard Cohen, M.S.W.
Otto Ehrenberg, Ph.D.
Andrea DeLuca, M.S.W., M.S.Ed.
Edward Emery, Ph.D.
Doris
Kimmich, M.S.W.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D. Linda Orber, M.A.
Zvi
Lothane, M.D.
Gloria Rich, Ph.D.
Sylvester Wojtkowski, Ph.D. Carl Stallmann, Ph.D.
Steve Zuckermann, Ph.D.
Sharon Weinstein, M.S. Ed.
Committees
Training
Continuing
Education
Richard Cohen,
M.S.W.,
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D.
Andrea DeLuca, M.S.W.
Edward Emery, Ph.D., Co-chair
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D., Chair
Steve Zuckermann, Ph.D., Co-chair
Faculty and Curriculum
Publications
Andrea DeLuca, M.S.W. Anthony
DeLuca, Ph.D.
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D., Chair
Edward Emery, Ph.D.
Zvi Lothane, M.D. Zvi Lothane, M.D.
Admissions
Ethics
Richard Cohen, M.S.W.
Chair
Antoinette DeLuca, Psy.D.
Anthony DeLuca, Ph.D.
Otto Ehrenberg, Ph.D.
Doris Kimmich, M.S.W.
Doris Kimmich, M.S.W.
Zvi Lothane, M.D.
Charles Weitman, J.D.
Carl Stallmann, Ph.D.
Steve Zuckermann, Ph.D., Chair
HISTORY
The International School for Mental Health Practitioners
first began offering advanced training courses for professionals on Staten
Island in 1975 and then began workshops in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1978.
The School was provisionally chartered by the Regents of the University of the
State of New York in 1981 and has been renewed by the State Education
Department for the last quarter century. ISMHP was approved by the American
Psychological Association to offer continuing education of psychologists in
1982 and became a member organization of the National Association for the
Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 2005. The Deputy Commissioner of the Office of
Higher Education, Office of the Professions, New York State Department of
Education has registered the psychoanalytic program as meeting the requirements
towards the state license in psychoanalysis in November 2005. ISMHP offers workshops to diplomats at the
United Nations and provides consultation gratis
to third world countries on the setting-up of mental health education and
programs.
PHILOSOPHY
International School for Mental Health Practitioners was
founded in order to provide advanced training to all those engaged in the
alleviation of emotional disorders. We are International
because knowledge, wisdom and expertise are not limited by geographical
boundaries or by time or place; we hope to assimilate the best that is
available in an ongoing dialectic. We are a School
or a place where teacher and student may meet in order to
learn; it is a place where ideas, theories and techniques, both old and new,
are explored. No one school of thought is the repository of truth; history
bears witness to this fact.
It is the purpose of the International School to make
available to the students the major theories, techniques and practices of
psychoanalysis. In this way, the practitioner may select which approach or
combination of approaches he/ she is most comfortable with and will be of most
benefit to the patient.
The School maintains a required educational curriculum which
follows the guidelines of the New York State Education Department for a
graduate to meet the educational requirements which are pre-requisite to the
licensing examination and licensing in psychoanalysis.
FACILITY
International School for Mental Health Practitioners has
been located in the same building for nearly thirty years. The facility has ten
rooms: treatment rooms, class rooms, a secretarial station with modern office equipment,
computer room for students, closed circuit t.v.
rooms, modest library with psychoanalytic periodicals and books, art gallery
and cloistered garden. With the growth of the internet, every student has the
largest library collection in the world at his /her finger tips. A seminar is
provided, in addition to the required course Information Systems and Computer Applications, where internet
resources for psychoanalytic research are provided.
THE
PSYCHOANALYTIC PROGRAM
The training in psychoanalysis is an intensive three year
program in which the student obtains a general understanding of the major
psychoanalytic theories and techniques as well as ample opportunity to practice
under supervision of senior psychoanalysts. Concern is always maintained for
scientific methodology and ethical issues.
And perhaps most importantly, this learning experience takes
place within the matrix of the student being an analysand
thus continuing the classical wisdom of "Know thyself;" and ancient
oaths: " But from what is to their harm or injustice, I will keep
them;" and biblical insights: " Physician heal thyself;" "
Why look at the mote that is in your brother's eye, but not consider the beam
that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me pull the
mote out of your eye; and there is a beam in your own eye? Hypocrite. First
cast out the beam from your own eye; and then you will see clearly how to cast
out the mote from your brother's eye."
1. Patients are assessed and evaluated by the Institute's
licensed staff and assigned to students.
2. Students provide service in the Institute's offices under
the supervision of a licensed professional qualified to practice
psychoanalysis.
3. Students never provide services in a private office which
the student owns or operates.
4. Payment for services is made to the Institute which may
provide a stipend to the student,
and
5. Communications and written materials clearly state to the
patient that the treatment is being provided by a student and that the student
is supervised by a licensed professional who is qualified in the practice of
psychoanalysis.
ADMISSION
Applicants may be those licensed from any of the related
health service professions with a master's degree or those who hold a master's degree from a regionally accredited
university or the foreign equivalent with a minimum 3.0 index. It is highly
recommended, but not required, that the applicant already have two years of
supervised experience in psychotherapy. Since research is an important part of the curriculum at ISMHP, the
applicant must have completed a course in Information Systems and Computer
Applications or the equivalent. Where
this skill is missing, ISMHP will provide the course before or during the first
semester. Or the student may demonstrate proficiency by passing the CLEP
examination in this area; ISMHP will provide direction on this procedure.
The Admissions
Committee is composed of members representing the major mental health
disciplines. If there is no committee member from the applicant's discipline, a
psychoanalyst from that discipline may be added to compose a panel of three.
The Dean, for serious cause, may reverse the decision of the committee. An
applicant may appeal a negative decision of the Admissions Committee and a new
panel be appointed. The decision of the second panel is final.
An applicant may re-apply, unless otherwise informed, after
one year.
Applications
are made to the Admissions
Committee, ISMHP, 2295 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, New York 10314.
TRAINING
PROGRAM
The training is designed to further the acquisition of
psychoanalytic skill and knowledge through:
1. Course Work
2. Supervision
3. Personal Psychoanalysis
The organization of the courses is governed by the ideas
that learning is most meaningful when it arises directly from the problems and
challenges of clinical practice. Through the coordination of clinical material,
related theory, and personal experience, the process of learning is guided by
therapeutic and personal needs.
FEES
1. A $50. Application
Fee must be included with the application form.
2. Required Admissions Committee Interviews: $100 is due at
time appointment is set up.
3. Student Appeal Reevaluation is $300.
4. Registration / Maintenance is $100 per semester (4
semesters/ year) till program is completed.
5. Course Tuition is $500 per course (45 clock hours); $500
for Information Systems &
Computer Applications course, if not
taken before admission.
6. Psychoanalytic Supervision Tuition Fee is set by the
Training Committee in consultation with the student and the amount is proposed
to the student in advance of application to
7. Personal Psychoanalysis fee is arranged with Training
Analyst within guidelines of ISMHP. (sliding scale)
8. The students renders 300 clock hours of treatment of
patients as part of the supervised educational requirement; all fees generated
from patients are payable to ISMHP.
9. Refund Policy: Application
Fee, Admissions Committee Interviews, Registration / Maintenance are all non-refundable. Tuition is 90% refundable before the first
class; 50% refundable before the first quarter of semester; and no refund after
the first quarter.
COMPLIANCE
ISMHP, in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1973, does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or physical or mental handicap
in any of its policies, practices and procedures. These policies and procedures
include, but are not limited to admission, employment, financial aid, and
educational services.
COURSE
WORK
The minimal program consists of ten courses, each consisting of 45 clock hours. The schedule of the
three years illustrates the distribution of courses over time. Each course
provides specific requirement
information, such as examinations and term paper and how evaluation of the student is made. In addition, at the end of
each course, the student submits an evaluation
of the course and instructor.
In special cases, work taken at other registered institutes,
before matriculation at ISMHP, may be credited, if they match our program.
SUPERVISED
ANALYSIS
There must be 150 clock hours of supervised analysis of the
student's psychoanalytic cases as follows: 50 clock hours of individual
supervision with one supervisor working on one case; and at
least 100 clock hours of individual supervision with another
supervisor working on one or more additional cases. Supervisors are assigned by
ISMHP.
CLINICAL
EXPERIENCE
There is required at least 300 clock hours of supervised
clinical experience in the practice of psychoanalysis. Please note: a total of 1500
hours of supervised clinical experience in psychoanalysis are required
for licensing but not ISMHP graduation. ISMHP will attempt to provide this
additional experience but cannot guarantee that the volume of patient referral
will always be available within the intensive three year educational program.
Other resources might be called upon to meet the missing hours.
PERSONAL
PSYCHOANALYSIS
The personal psychoanalysis must be with one having a
certificate in psychoanalysis approved by ISMHP. Candidates must have a minimum
of 300 clock hours of personal psychoanalysis. The Training Psychoanalyst will
not report to the School on the progress of the candidate nor will he /
she participate in administrative decisions with respect to
the candidate. A training psychoanalyst must be so designated at this School or
at a recognized institute who has had ten years of experience. Analysts from
outside the School must be approved by the Dean. Previous analysis will be
accepted at the discretion of the Dean. An extensive list of Training Analysts
is provided to the student.
REQUIREMENTS
FOR GRADUATION
1. Successful completion of all required courses (450 clock
hours) and "B" average is
required in course work. In addition, the student must have two hours in Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse
and Maltreatment. ISMHP recommends this be completed at the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (212) 233 5500 x 219 or another
approved agency.
2. Successful completion of 150 clock hours of supervised
analysis of student's psychoanalytic cases.
3. Successful completion of 300 clock hours of supervised
clinical experience in the practice of psychoanalysis.
4. Completion of 300 hours of personal psychoanalysis.
5. Successful Case Presentation of a case report of a
patient in psychoanalysis for at least two years seen twice a week or more.
6. Final approval of the Faculty which will make an overall
evaluation of the candidate.
Upon meeting the requirements, the candidate will receive at
graduation the Advanced Certificate in
Psychoanalysis approved by the New York State Office of Higher Education.
DOCTORAL
PROGRAM
Students may apply to the joint doctoral program of