Fellowship Program
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis offers a one-year and / or ongoing Fellowship in Psychoanalysis for practicing clinicians and graduate/postgraduate students in clinical psychology, social work, and psychiatry. CCP-affiliated psychoanalysts and advanced candidates serve as mentors and teachers. The CCP Fellowship is designed to address the needs of graduate students and other individuals who are interested in beginning and furthering their psychoanalytic experience. The Fellowship Program is an informal, supportive setting, which includes individual mentoring, small group monthly discussions, and public lectures.
Our Fellowship Program has three components. Each fellow meets monthly throughout the academic year with an assigned mentor to discuss readings, clinical material, and other topics of interest. As a group, the fellows come together 9-10 times per year for seminars led by CCP mentors or advanced candidates. Third, the fellows join CCP candidates and the interested public to hear lectures by visiting and local faculty through CCP's Fridays@CCP and Sundays@CCP. The Friday evening series features outstanding psychoanalysts (from accross the US and occasionally from abroad) who are invited to teach CCP candidates enrolled in our Training Program in Psychoanalysis. The Sunday mid-day series provides a forum for individual presentations covering a range of topics of interest to the greater psychoanalytic community of Chicago. (For more information on these programs and to see the schedule from 2009-10, click "Events" on the home page.)
Typically, the Fellowship Program begins in October with a kick-off brunch for mentors and mentees. Group seminars take place monthly, October through May, generally on Sundays from 12-2PM. An end-of-the-year event is held in June.
Applications for each academic year are read in July, with notification of acceptance following soon thereafter.
Upon acceptance to the Fellowship program, fellows must become CCP Fellow-Affiliates. The annual Fellowship-Affiliation fee is $75, which includes admission to all CCP events and a 10% reduction in fees for study groups under the auspices of CCP. There are no other charges for the fellowship program.
Applications for the 2010-11 academic year will be accepted beginning May 1, 2010 and must be received by July 30, 2010.
Interested applicants are asked to submit a current CV, two letters of recommendation written by a teacher or supervisor, and a personal statement explaining their interest in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory and therapy.
Applicants should email completed materials to both Sandra Ullmann, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, and to Betty Melton, Administrative Director.
For those who have graduated from the CCP Fellowship, CCP offers an ongoing Continuation Group, which meets monthly in Evanston. Graduate students, recent graduates and working professionals gather to discuss readings and clinical material and to talk about concerns related to psychoanalytically-informed writing, thinking and practice. Thus far, over the past two years, we have discussed readings by Freud, Ogden, Racker and others, have followed several cases over time, have discussed participants' writings, and have studied the work of speakers in the Fridays@CCP series in preparation for or follow-up to their visits. The group welcomes new members at any point. For more information about the Continuation Group, please contact Nancy Burke at nburke@ccpsa.org.
For further information concerning the CCP Fellowship Program, please contact Sandra Ullmann (sullmann@ccpsa.org) or Betty Melton at 630.241.2363 or bmelton@ccpsa.org.