title: Psychoanalytic training experience and postgraduate professional development - Part II.
abstract: This exploratory study looks at the training and postgraduate experience of the 2008-2014 graduates of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. It follows our former study of all living graduates through the year 2007 (Schneider et al., 2014). The survey developed and used in the first study, with a few additional questions added to increase our understanding of the training experience, was sent to 38 graduates with a return rate of 58%. As with the first survey, graduates were invited to assess, among other training experiences, their training analysis, classroom work, and supervision, and to tell of their post-graduation involvement in teaching, supervising, study groups and other professional endeavors. They were also asked to rate their satisfaction with themselves as psychoanalysts and with their analytic career. The questions added to the previous survey related to the graduates' theoretical orientation, the influence on their training experiences of the change in gender distribution, and of the diversity of professions now represented in the analytic training program. They were also encouraged to provide spontaneous narrative data. The data from our second survey showed important differences when compared with our first. In the first survey male respondents were in the majority; in the second, women held the majority. Of the professions represented in the training program, psychiatry was the majority in the first survey, psychology and social work held the majority in the second. Most respondents claimed an object-relation theoretical orientation. Analytic immersion continues to decrease, with most respondents having two patients at the time of graduation and one at the time of the survey.
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 122 S. Michigan Suite 1315, Chicago, IL, 60603, USA.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 73 East Lake St., Chicago, IL, 60601, USA.
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilkerson
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 441 East Erie Street, Apt. #4304, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 122 S. Michigan Suite 1413, Chicago, IL, 60603, USA.
authors.forename: Caryle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perlman
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1300 W. Belmont Ave. , Suite 215, Chicago, IL, 60657, USA.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Duval
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 180 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2413, Chicago, IL, 60601, USA.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shelby
authors.affiliation: Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, 122 S. Michigan Suite 1301, Chicago, IL, 60603, USA.
authors.forename: Molly
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Witten
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: psychoanalytic education; research