An Analyst in Training: Psychoanalytic Candidacy Amid Covid and Other Distractions - Hardcover

by Graeme Daniels (Author), Pedro Job (Foreword by)

Written for aspiring and prospective psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, this book provides an in-depth exploration of what psychoanalytic training entails and what motivates one to undergo this extensive training. Analytic training is rigorous, expensive, and time-consuming, yet despite the prestige it may afford, provides little or no assurance of professional success. An Analyst in Training follows the experience of author Graeme Daniels, a mid-career psychotherapist, who has undergone training in San Francisco, California, USA while maintaining an ongoing consultation practice with a training candidate in Lisbon, Portugal. It covers institutional policies (and politics), program graduation requirements, and training standards, as well as their interplay with COVID-era restrictions and diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. Daniels brings an international and historical flavor to these topics, with his distinctively satirical yet sincere voice.

Author Biography

Graeme Daniels, MFT, has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1996, is an instructor at the East Bay Year Long satellite program of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP), and is a post-seminar analytic training candidate at SFCP. He has written several novels, as well as three non-fiction works, including Getting Real About Sex Addiction: A Psychodynamic Approach to Treatment, co-authored with Joe Farley (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He has provided annual trainings at San Francisco Bay Area mental health agencies and is a former faculty member within the West Coast Masterson Institute.