About the IAAP Router Program
(excerpts from IAAP Router Handbook)
Edmund Dulac for the book
“The Dreamer of Dreams” by Queen Marie of Romania
Since the late 1990’s the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) has been engaged in providing training possibilities for people who live in places where no registered training to become a Jungian Analyst with membership of the IAAP is available.
The Router Training is organized by the IAAP Education Committee and takes place in the IAAP Developing Groups. The training aims at qualifying individuals to obtain Individual Membership of the IAAP via the Router Training Program.
Developing Groups are associations of people in regions in which there is no existing IAAP GroupMember.
Developing Groups (DGs) are composed of students of Analytical Psychology, working primarily as professional psychotherapists, physicians, and educators or in other relevant professions. A number of these may be Routers, pursuing Router Training to become Individual Members of the IAAP.
Membership of a DG does not imply membership status in the IAAP.
The IAAP requires applicants to become routers to demonstrate that they meet all legal requirements for the clinical practice of psychotherapy in the country in which they live. Clinical experience and an academic degree at a graduate or postgraduate level are the general rule, although there may be exceptions. The Education Committee, in consultation with the Executive Committee, will have the right to grant exceptions.
Edmund Dulac for the book
“The Dreamer of Dreams” by Queen Marie of Romania
Edmund Dulac for the book
“The Stealers of Light” by Queen Marie of Romania
It is expected that an applicant will have a minimum of 25 hours of personal analysis with an IAAP member before applying for router training.
Continuity and frequency (recommended once a week) of analysis are regarded highly
important. Personal analysis must continue on a regular basis throughout the router training to fulfill the requirements for Individual Member application.
It is expected that individual analysis is continuous throughout the training for a minimum of 3 years comprising at least 240 hours (including the hours before entering router training) with an IAAP analyst.
A minimum of 100 hours of individual supervision with one or more IAAP analysts (not those
conducting personal analysis) is required. The IAAP analyst must have at least 5 years post
qualification (after he/she becomes a Provisional Member)
Routers are required to be in regular group and individual supervision for as long as they are in the router program. Routers are required to see patients when they are in Router Training. A minimum of 50 hours of group supervision is required.
In order to become a router, the applicant must pass a screening interview.
During training, the router will have to pass an intermediate exam and a final exam.