"Typically, successful applicants...have the capacity for establishing relationships on a deeper level and maintaining them over time; the capacity to recognize one's own limitations and tolerate the tension arising from problems that are not readily solved; a capacity to bear personal problems and anxieties without dependence on denial; and a conviction as to the forceful nature of the unconscious."

                               Edited extract from the Institute's website.

Attributes requested of individuals applying to the Institute for training as a psychoanalyst. Trainees use the London Clinic's consulting rooms alongside fully qualified psychoanalysts.