Virginia

University of Virginia

Contact: Joseph P. Allen, Ph.D.

Email: allen@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-982-4727

FAX: 434-982-4766

Address:  Department of Psychology

Box 400400, 102 Gilmer Hall

Charlottesville, VA, 22904-4400

Survey Results:

Is your doctoral program accredited by the American Psychological Association?  

Yes 

Is your program considered open to and inclusive of Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic theory and practice?  

Yes 

Does your program have any faculty that are certified psychoanalysts, or in psychoanalytical training?  

No

Does your program have psychoanalytically-oriented faculty, and include psychoanalytical thought in their courses?  

Psychodynamic but not psychoanalytic.

Does your program require introductory courses on psychoanalytical theories and psychotherapy?  

No 

Which psychoanalytical theoretical perspectives does your Program offer? 

Freudian/Classical, 

Object-relations, 

Does your program cover special topics from psychoanalytical perspectives such as treatment of severe psychopathology, race, class, gender/sexuality, dreams, supervision, transference/counter-transference?  

Yes 

Does your program require courses on short-term psychotherapy and crisis intervention that include psychoanalytical perspectives? 

No 

Program Description Provided by the Institution:

We consider psychodynamic perspectives on psychotherapy along with cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal process, and other perspectives shown to be valid in treatment of mental illness.