• Question: where do you recommend you go to university to become a psychoanalist

    Asked by anon-203751 to Alexandra on 4 Mar 2019.
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      Alexandra Quigley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      A psychoanalyist is a bit different from psychologist.

      A psychoanalyst has to spend lots of money on having three sessions a week of their own therapy for years and years. Once they have done some study, and also had some training in working with clients (and had sessions with training cases), then they get to call themselves a psychoanalyst. There aren’t many psychoanalysts in the NHS, as other therapies and approaches tend to get better results and more quickly.

      I think that being a psychologist is much better, as our training and therapy tends to be based on research rather than just theory.

      The Tavistock Centre in London has a psychoanalysis department, I think.

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