fieldwork placement
The fieldwork placement offers direct
contact with severely regressed
patients in a mental hospital or
agency setting, giving students the
opportunity to observe extremes of
psychopathology at the earliest levels
of fixation.
Prerequisites for fieldwork placement
include one semester of approved
training analysis and satisfactory
completion of PT 184, Primitive
Emotional States.
While registered for PT 184, Primitive
Emotional States, which deals with
the psychoses and severe pathologies,
students visit and report on three
institutions for the mentally ill and
begin the process of selecting a placement.
To be assigned a fieldwork
placement, students submit a written
application to the Fieldwork
Coordinator, who schedules an
interview to discuss placement
arrangements.
During their fieldwork placements
students register for PT 185,
Fieldwork Seminar, and PT 111,
Fieldwork Case Supervision.
The fieldwork placement consists of a
minimum of 400 hours in placement-related
activities. Students should be
prepared to devote ten or more hours
weekly to the placement program.
This includes time spent in case
observation, meeting individually
with patients, administrative
supervision at the placement, case
observation supervision at the Center,
attendance at clinical courses, and
preparation of process and seminar
reports. After successfully
completing two semesters of the fieldwork placement and PT 185,
students may take PT 186, Neuroses
and Character Disorders, focusing
on the pathologies likely to be
encountered at the Consultation
and Referral Service.
It is recommended that students plan
to take two human development
courses, two history courses, four
theory courses, and the first two
research courses so that by the end of
the second year they will have
completed the core courses required
for the Certificate Candidacy level.
Psychoanalytic training is more
meaningful when students participate
concurrently in theory, development,
history, and research courses while in
the fieldwork placement.
To complete the fieldwork requirement,
students offer a presentation of
their work with hospital patients to
fellow students and the clinical
faculty. A letter from the hospital administrative supervisor recommending
the student for advancement
in the CMPS program
is also required.
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