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The I.F.P.T., located in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., teaches and supervises advanced psychotherapy techniques. While it considers all major technical approaches, the bulk of its trainings are dynamic and developmentally directed. The I.F.P.T. was formed by Charles Schwarzbeck, Ph.D., in 1991, and originally named the R.S. Lourie Center (in honor of Dr. Reginald S. Lourie). The Center was established to teach infant observation, interventions for babies and their parents, and psychoanalytic treatment for young children.
The Center’s Seattle-based, training clinic offered a unique curriculum, and innovative training opportunities. In 1993, interventions for older children, adults, and marriages were included in the curriculum and supervision efforts. Trainings were shared with colleagues in Canada, and later, in India.
In 1995, because of its emphasis on European and South American, dynamic approaches, development of unique “think-tanks”, and involvement and generosity of trainees from different countries, the Center was renamed the International Foundation of Psychotherapy Training. The I.F.P.T. has contributed four-month-long trainings, in Seattle, to practicing clinicians for ten years. Several classes have remained together, for several years, to continue their learning.
Sessions begin twice a year, - in the second weeks of February and October. Sessions are defined according to specific content (see below). One session, each year, is progressive; it is constructed to extend learning from a previous session. Trainings have three parts:
Six hour classes, that meet one Friday, each month Weekly consultation group, for two to four participants Weekly tutorial, with a course tutor, for individual training and supervision.
Selected journal chapters and papers are selected, to limit the amount of reading.
IFPT training emphasizes techniques that actively utilize the clinician’s dynamic personality within the anatomy of change.
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