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Human or clinical issues

• Adolescent issues
• Anxiety/depression
• Child and adolescent issues
• Childhood trauma
• Depression
• Personality disorders

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Therapeutic approach

• Analytic psychotherapy/counselling
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

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Qualification

Certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Australia
New South Wales,
Queensland,
Victoria,
Western Australia,

New Zealand

Contact:
Judi Blumenfeld Hoadley
(New Zealand)

Telephone: +64 9 6389 825
Email: jhoadley@ihug.co.nz

Over the years, there has been a proliferation of interpretations of his original theory, and there have been major schools of thought that grew out of, and sometimes away from, his ideas. Psychoanalysis itself has been a complex and dynamic idea that has developed and evolved in many different directions.

Perhaps the most fundamentally important contribution Freud made—underpinning all later developments of his theory—was his illumination and investigation of the unconscious mind. The influence, role, operation, and contents of the unconscious mind, and its formative shaping of who we are and how we function as human beings, is at the heart of all contemporary approaches to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy focuses on the emotional relationship that emerges between two people—the psychotherapist and the patient—in a carefully created setting. This unique relationship is designed for the discovery of, the surfacing of, and the exploration of the powerful dynamic subterranean influences that affect who and how one is as a person, and how one relates to others. This approach emphasises the important formative influence in our lives of significant relationships from early infancy to the present day.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be of help to many people—children, adolescents, and adults—with problems in living, learning, working, and relating. These difficulties usually emerge in forms such as depression, anxiety, general unhappiness, relationship breakdown, sexual or intimacy difficulties, and personal crises. Some people struggle with rigid and ongoing patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving that are maladaptive. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy may also assist people experiencing more serious disturbances.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy usually involves ongoing and regular sessions, between one to three times a week for 50 minutes. The complexity of the mind, with its entrenched patterns, determines that this form of healing is usually a fairly lengthy experience.

APPWA
The Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Western Australia (APPWA) is a multi-disciplinary body of psychotherapists with advanced training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. APPWA seeks to promote and support the highest possible standards of clinical practice, training, and ethics in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Western Australia and, to this end, provides continuing education and supervision for practicing psychotherapists, a forum for clinical discussion, and training in the practice of psychotherapy.

Contact:
www.appwa.org.au
Email: kathryn.davies@health.wa.gov.au

Postal address:
PO Box 965
Subiaco, WA, 6904

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NSWIPP
The NSW Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is an association whose members are trained and qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapists who work according to psychodynamic principles. The NSWIPP was established in 1976 by a group of professionals who were determined to promote the practice and teaching of dynamic psychotherapy at a time when it was fast disappearing as a subject for study in University courses in NSW.

Contact:
www.nswipp.org
Email: nswipp2@bigpond.com
Telephone: (02) 9558 3175

Postal address:
PO Box 6172,
Marrickville South
NSW 2204

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PPASA
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of South Australia

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QPPA
Queensland Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association

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VAPP
The Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (VAPP) is an organisation whose members are trained and qualified psychotherapists from a variety of different backgrounds who work according to psychoanalytic principles. The Association is a member organisation of the national body, The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia (PPAA), and is incorporated under the Victorian Associations’ Incorporation Act.

Contact:
www.vapp.asn.au
Telephone: (03) 9428 2303
Fax: (03) 9428 2303
Email: vappinc@netspace.net.au

Postal address:
The Victorian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Inc.
18 Erin Street, Richmond
Vic 3121

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VCPA
The Victorian Child Psychotherapy Association is the professional body for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy established in Melbourne in March 1989 and functioning under Articles of Association and in accordance with a Constitution by means of an Executive and a number of Sub-committees. There is an extensive Code of Ethics and Procedures for Implementation of the Code of Ethics.

Contact:
www.vcpa.org.au
Telephone: 8552 0555

Postal address:
Victorian Child Psychotherapists Association
PO Box 1096
Hawksburn, Victoria 3142
Australia

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NZIPP

www.nzipp.net.nz

NZIPP is an organisation whose members are extensively trained and qualified in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. We are based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was originally established in 1990 and then in 1999, the Institute became a member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia. (PPAA)

Telephone: (07) 3832 1096
Email: vanHees@ajppsychotherapy.com

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