Application Package may be obtained from the administrative office of the Institute. Applications for admission into the
Core Training Programs are processed throughout the academic year, September through June. Filing of applications
and the other documents mentioned in the Package by May 1st is encouraged. The deadline for sending the
completed Application and the documents is June 30th.
Following submission of the application and documents each eligible applicant is placed in the admission process.
Tehran Psychoanalytic Institute welcomes applications from all types of mental health professional and academic
backgrounds. Admission standards are high, but those who come here will receive one of the finest trainings in the
theory and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Selection is based upon an assessment of the applicant’s education, clinical skills, maturity, honesty, intellectual
aptitude, interest for scientific thinking, and characterological suitability and the final decision of the Education
Committee. The Admission Committee is composed of at least two interviewers. The Interviewers of the Candidates
are psychoanalysts and the interviewers of the Trainees are psychoanalytic psychotherapists and or psychoanalysts.
The Admission Committee evaluates the applicants’ applications and their level of educational qualification and clinical
experience based on the Academic-Clinical-Personality Table. The Interviewing Members of the Admissions Committee
arrange to interview with the applicants separately. Then they meet with all the Members of the Admissions Committee
to review the results of the interviews (regarding the evaluation of the applicant’s personality) and of the Application
Forms to make their final recommendation to the Education Committee. The final phase of admission is the approval of
the applicants by the Education Committee.
ACADEMIC-CLINICAL-PERSONALITY TABLE
CRITERIA POINTS
GPA of Last Educational Degree 5
Level of Familiarity with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis 15
Amount of prior Personal Treatment 25
Amount of prior Clinical Experience 15
Personality Suitability 40
The list of the names of those admitted is given to the Public Relations by the Education Committee to be placed on the
Announcement Board in the Institute and also in the website. The Public Relations Office contacts the admitted students
to invite them to come to the Institute to receive their Training Catalog for the purpose of becoming aware of the
Institute’s policies, further orientation, the signing of the Agreement, filling out the Membership Application, and
registration for the Training Program.
After the registration of the admitted applicants is completed, the Public Relations Office prepares the Synopsis of
Student Information Forms and gives them to the Education Committee before the beginning of the Semester.
Before the beginning of the classes, the Education Committee arranges for a meeting between the Dean and the new
students for orientation and welcoming. The date and place of the meeting is to be announced by the Public Relations
Office.
