How to defend a diploma in psychoanalysis?

Training in psychoanalysis is conducted in Russia in many cities within the framework of a second higher psychological or medical education. As an independent specialty, psychoanalysis is presented only as an advanced training for teachers, psychologists or medical professionals. The question of how to protect the diploma, stands before the students at the end of the learning process.

The choice of the topic and the supervisor of the diploma

The object of research in psychoanalysis is not a client who undergoes psychoanalysis from a beginner specialist. The study can only concern the forms and methods of psychoanalytic practice, the development of new approaches in connection with the characteristics of modern clients. The supervisor helps both to protect the diploma and prepare it, supervising and accompanying the work of the ward at all stages of practical work. Most often, the leader is a practicing psychoanalyst, well versed in theory, which is taken as the basis of the student in his graduation work, and in practice. Practical work of the graduate student is held with regular consultations, supervisions, which can be individual and group. In the classroom on the methodology of scientific design, students can receive information on how to protect the diploma not only in the application of psychoanalytic methods in working with clients, but also in applied psychoanalysis, the history of psychoanalysis in different countries.

Registration of the diploma

The structure of the diploma should consist of two chapters, introduction, conclusion and applications. Introduction, as well as speech on the diploma, should reflect the relevance of the topic, its problems in modern science and practice and the hypothesis of how the student expects to find a way out of the current problem situation. The hypothesis should be directly related to the tasks of the work, because Any assumption requires verification. In conclusion, the researcher notes how justified his assumption in the process of studying and testing the proposed methods of work. In any scientific work there must be a novelty. It is not clear how to defend a diploma without making anything new in the structure of its activities or in historical research. Defense of the thesis work is the protection of novelty: a new method, a new view of the problem, a new approach to the use of psychoanalysis in any field of activity.

The first chapter of the thesis should be devoted to the theory of psychoanalysis, within which research is conducted and a new element is introduced. The theoretical substantiation is given to the innovation, the possibility of its use in its work on the basis of previous studies of the classics of psychoanalysis is confirmed.

The second chapter describes the practical work with an emphasis on the theory presented. The part of the study where the new method or approach was applied is selected and analyzed. Given the confidentiality of psychoanalytic work with clients, the diploma work mentions the fictitious name of the client or only his initials. Ethical norms prescribe also to get the client's permission to describe this work in their diploma. If the work is of a historical nature, in the second chapter, the development of the method can be presented in stages, with an analysis of the causes of its appearance, as well as the prospects for its development in the future.

The delivery of the diploma involves a number of activities: the passage of pre-defense, the receipt of a review by a third-party specialist and the recall of the head. The speech is presented for defense, which briefly describes the essence of the work, its relevance, novelty and the result of the practical activity of the beginning specialist. The expert commission of teachers and practicing psychoanalysts comprehensively evaluates the work of the student.