Course Presentation

This master's degree aims to contribute to the training of psychologists with solid technical and scientific knowledge enabling them to practice autonomously in a clinical context. This program provides knowledge about normal and pathological development and a critical and theoretical understanding of the principles underlying the psychoanalytic model applied to individuals, groups and social contexts.
Its main objective is to stimulate clinical research in a systematic way and provide students with adequate methodological tools for this purpose.

It fits the Vail model of training psychologists (APA, 2007) highlighting clinical skills but basing them on research.
The master intends to take advantage of ISPA' specific circumstances , namely: the existence of the ISPA Clinic and its own highly differentiated and competente faculty, since all of them are trained as psychoanalysts or psychoanalytic psychotherapists, , integrating national and international scientific societies.

Key Learning Outcomes

The aim is to train psychologists in a professional/researcher model, providing them with skills for professional practice and research. Skills include:
- Acquisition of competence for autonomous clinical work in an ethical manner, with knowledge of the deontology of psychologists;
- Acquisition of skills of observation, interview, assessment, diagnosis and writing of psychological reports;
- Demonstration of understanding of psychoanalytic concepts relevant to the structure and functioning of groups, organizations and societies;
- Acquisition of skills to apply psychoanalytic theory and models beyond the clinical context (eg educational, social and health contexts);
- Acquisition and development of critical and reflective knowledge and the ability to formulate hypotheses and test them as well as evaluate the intervention itself;
- Acquisition of research skills that allow them to do research independently and how to communicate it.

Programme structure

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