Since 1982 the A.P.G. is a member of the Confederation of Italian Organisation for Analytic Research on Group (C.O.I.R.A.G.) and of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy (I.A.G.P.). Since its foundation, the A.P.G. focussed its interest mainly on the clinical aspects of group activity, and its member have provided practical as theoretical contributions in different areas of group analysis: Different theoretical orientations, in the clinical field of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, coexist within the Association: group analysis, psychoanalysis of groups, and interactive trend. Coexistence and comparison of different orientations is indeed peculiar to the identity and to the group dynamics of the Association. Soon after being founded, the A.P.G. set up a four-year training course aimed to form group psychotherapists, which was then open to psychologists and to medical doctors. Today, the training course is reserved to psychotherapists seeking further specialisation. After an entrance interview, each trainee is required to participate to a for - year cycle of fortnightly theoretical and clinical seminars. During the first two years, he/she is also admitted, as a participant observer, to a psychotherapy group, which is held twice a week by a member of the A.P.G. ; he/she discusses this experience in a group that meets fortnightly. At the and of the first two years, and after being submitted to a second interview, he/she is allowed to lead a psychotherapeutic group under a weekly supervision, both individual and in a group, by two A.P.G. supervisors. Finally, after presenting a paper on his/her way of running a therapeutic group, he/she becomes an A.P.G. member. Address: A.P.G., via Tortona 86, 20144 Milano, ITALY Tel. 02-48953800, Click here to send a e-mail to APG
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