Professional Training at IPSA
Psycho-Systems Analysis (Psychotherapy)
Founded in 1988, by Steven & Pauline Richards, Psycho-Systems Analysis is a Jungian based, depth-psychology modality, within the psychodynamic; integrative, clinical hypnosis, biopsychosocial, clinical-psychophysiology, evolutionary and field-informational domains of psychotherapy. It is part of the emerging new paradigm approach to 21st century psychology and psychotherapy, that includes the evolutionary psychiatry and psychotherapy of Dr Anthony Stevens, and the affective neuroscience, and neuropsychoanalysis of Professors Jaak Panksepp and Mark Solms. Early supporters of the development of Psycho-Systems Analysis, included: Franz Jung (only son of Carl Gustav Jung); founder of the biopsychosocial medical model; professor George L Engel; Jungian Analyst Dr Anthony Stevens; Dr Peter Nixon; and professor of neuroscience, Jungian analyst and Freudian analyst, Dr Ernest L Rossi. Psycho-Systems Analysts are trained to integrate Jungian psychotherapy with clinical psychophysiology, and a relevant standard of biomedical science, allowing them to work closely with medical practitioners. Psycho-Systems Analysts are accredited by the International Psycho-Systems Analysis Society (IPSAS) - which is the governing body world-wide for the training of Psycho-Systems Analysts.
Psycho-Systems Analysis (Analysts)
Psycho-Systems Analysts are members of the International Psycho-Systems Analysis Society (IPSAS). Their training and clinical & professional experience, have met the Society's requirements for registration as an Analyst, beyond training as a psychotherapist within the Psycho-Systems Analysis modality. Typically, they will have made an outstanding professional contribution to the field.
Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis
Founded by professor Mark Solms and Professor Jaak Panksepp, neuropsychoanalysis developed in the 1990s as an integrative approach to Freudian psychoanalysis and affective neuroscience. It is at the forefront of developments in neuroscience as applied to psychotherapy and analysis. Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis, was created by Steven & Pauline Richards, and announced in Richards, S.T. (2023) in 44th Bulletin of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society, Neuropsychoanalysis, DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2023.2264308. To specialize in Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis, trainees must be registered as Analysts with the International Psycho-Systems Analysis Society (IPSAS) and be current Clinical Fellows of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.
Neurohypnoanalysis
Founded in 1988, by Steven & Pauline Richards, Neurohypnoanalysis, is a specialist modality of clinical hypnosis, as applied within Psycho-Systems Analysis. It is based on the original works of Pierre Janet, Carl Jung, Milton Erickson and Ernest Rossi, with recent influence drawn from affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. Neurohypnoanalysts are accredited by the International Neurohypnoanalysis Society (INHS) - which is the governing body world-wide, for the training of Neurohypnoanalysts.
Psychotherapy
Psycho-Systems Analysis
Hypnotherapy
Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis
Coaching
Course Diplomas
All IPSA professional training courses are now jointly presented with the Neo-Renaissance Academy
Full professional training at IPSA is modular, over three years, with each completed year awarding a unique, stand alone diploma qualification in a specified modality.
Completion of years 1 - 3 builds incrementally into the final qualification in Psycho-Systems Analysis Psychotherapy.
Successful completion of year 1, allows students to register with the International Neurohypnoanalysis Society (INHS) with a Diploma in Neurohypnoanalysis
Successful completion of year 2, allows students to register with the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis (IPSA) as a Diplomate in Applied Depth Psychology
Successful completion of year 3, allows students to register with the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis (IPSA) as a Diplomate in Psycho-Systems Analysis Psychotherapy
Post Registration Higher Diplomas
Application for post-registration training at IPSA as a Psycho-Systems Analyst requires prior qualification and registration as a Psycho-Systems Analysis Psychotherapist. Psycho-Systems Analysts are registered and accredited by the International Psycho-Systems Analysis Society (IPSAS)
Application for post-registration training at IPSA as a Diplomate in Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis requires prior qualification and registration as a Psycho-Systems Analyst Psychotherapist, and then independent training and qualification as a Clinical Fellow of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society (NPSA)
Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis Diplomates are registered and accredited by The International Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis Society (IJNS)
All IPSA courses are accepted as entry routes for clinical registration with the International Renaissance-Psychotherapy Association (IRPA) which has territorial chapters of its register
Accreditation & Registration
Professional training at IPSA is intended to provide a be-spoke pathway for career and personal development.
Different territories define or regulate professional titles and roles in different ways. For example, in the United Kingdom, psychotherapy and related modalities are not state regulated. In the United States, regulation depends upon relevant legislature within each of the 50 states. Similarly, territories such as the European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have their own regulatory and licencing processes, as do other territories world-wide.
For professionals who are already qualified and registered in their home territory, IPSA training can be commenced as specialist post-professional, or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) qualifications, in Psycho-Systems Analysis, or in any of its modalities.
For those new to the field, and who live in territories that have strict regulation of professional title or role, IPSA offers Diplomate Qualifications in Coaching – which is generally an unregulated professional title. IPSA Coaching qualifications include all aspects of training covered by our psychotherapy/depth psychology modalities, with appropriate additional training in Coaching, providing the very highest level of professional development and practice.
IPSA Coaching Modalities:
The International Renaissance-Psychotherapy Association (IRPA)
Hypnosis & Coaching
(including hypnotherapy and sports performance)
Clinical & Health Coaching
(health and depth-psychology based)
Renaissance Coaching
(fully integrated training in association with the Neo-Renaissance Academy)
Coaching Diplomas
Diploma in Hypnosis & Performance Coaching
Coaching, with core training in advanced hypnotherapy (neurohypnoanalysis) and elite human performance in athletics, personal development, and the work place
Diploma in Clinical & Health Coaching
Coaching, with advanced hypnotherapy (neurohypnoanalysis) and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Clinical & Health Coaches, are also trained in biomedical sciences and supportive rehabilitation, and to work in a liaison capacity between clients and medical and psychological professionals.
Diploma in Renaissance Coaching
The highest and most integrated model of Coaching we offer. In tandem with the Neo-Renaissance Academy, our Renaissance Coaching Diploma, combines the full range of our clinical, health and human performance modalities, with the vision and passion for realizing the positive potential in the human spirit, and bringing this to fruition in the lives of individual human beings in contemporary society.
Admission Requirements
IPSA Training meets the accepted standards for post-graduate level professional competence in the United Kingdom.
Training is therefore at a minimum of Master’s degree level of attainment, but with the focus being on practical professional competence, rather than abstract academic process.
IPSA welcomes graduates in any discipline, to train in our professional modalities, but long experience has shown that prior formal academic achievement is not in itself an indicator of future professional competence. We have decades of experience in successfully training people without formal academic qualifications, and some of these have gone on to become the very best, and most competent of professional therapists.
Accordingly, IPSA does not select trainees on the basis of their formal education, but instead on two fundamental human qualities: those of character, and of calling.
Character
Character here refers to a person’s irreducible nature and core values, it is the essence that defines them as a human being, as they develop along their life-span development trajectory. To be of fundamentally ‘good’ character, does not mean being perfect, but it does mean an essential drive within someone to do the best they can to develop their humanistic potential.
Calling
Calling, is the internally felt representation of a ‘voice’ that calls us toward a particular path in life. If our calling is to work with the suffering psyche and wider life of others, through the medium of our worked-through character, then the psychological therapies, particularly the depth-psychological therapies, that engage with mind-body interrelationships and the unfolding of a healing lifespan development, then you will have a home here at IPSA.
If you feel you have the essentials of both Character and Calling, then we welcome your application to train professionally at IPSA.
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