Master in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
What is the Master?
Since its origin, psychoanalysis has understood psychological suffering in the light of unconscious conflicts, defence mechanisms, the impact of the past on the present, or our essential tendency to repetition. In recent decades, this set of principles has been combined with contemporary developments in neuroscience, cognitive psychology or developmental psychology to give rise to empirically validated models of psychoanalytic therapy, as well as specialised applications for specific clinical problems.
The programme integrates both sides of psychoanalytic knowledge (the classical view and current developments) to offer students an integrated, informed and practical training in psychotherapy.
The Master in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MPPC) aims to train students in the use of the basic assessment and clinical intervention tools of contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Aimed at both recently graduated psychologists and professionals with years of experience, this degree is an up-to-date and dynamic training offer. The teaching staff is made up of professors who are practising professionals, and the programme aims to enable participants to apply a psychoanalytical approach and work to therapeutic intervention in a practical and rigorous way.
- CentersCiencias Humanas y Sociales (Comillas CIHS)
- LanguagesSpanish
- CertificationComillas master's degrees
- ModalityIn person
- Duration1 year (60 ECTS)
- Starts On12/01/2026
- Seats30
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Study plan
El Máster está estructurado en 60 créditos ECTS impartidos en un año natural (enero – diciembre). Las asignaturas del primer cuatrimestre se corresponden con asignaturas optativas del segundo cuatrimestre del segundo año del Máster de Psicología General Sanitaria (30 ECTS), mientras que las asignaturas del segundo cuatrimestre del Máster son específicas del título (30 ECTS).
This Master's, unique in our environment, enables students to use basic intervention tools from a contemporary and interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective.
Professional projection
Psychotherapy in the private sphere
Health centres
General and specialised hospitals
Residential and outpatient social and health care centres
Mutual health insurance companies
Mental health services
Work Placements
We prepare you for your future and introduce you to the real world with comprehensive work experience training.
Everything you need to know
Further information
The main objective of this Master's degree is for students to acquire therapeutic skills specific to contemporary psychoanalytic orientation. These skills will be aimed at addressing specific forms of discomfort and the management of relevant clinical processes: the analysis of conflicts and unconscious defences, interventions focused on mentalisation, the approach to relational patterns and patient attachment, the analysis of the dynamics of transference and countertransference or trauma-focused intervention, among others. The training will be mainly applicable to individual psychotherapy with adults, without forgetting the acquisition of tools to help families and adolescents, or in the context of institutional or group intervention.
The learning methodology will combine traditional teaching with the study of texts, individual and group exercises, simulations and role-playing, analysis of clinical material, clinical practice under supervision, or individualised tutorials with members of the teaching staff.
CIHS Comillas
Cantoblanco Campus
Since its foundation, the Faculties of Human and Social Sciences, Theology and Canon Law at Comillas Pontifical University have had the vocation to promote humanism and plurality.
It is defined by its desire to train people capable of taking thought and ideas to the highest levels, and to give them the necessary skills to be useful and improve life in the complex world in which we live.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Because Comillas studies are in high demand and places are limited, the best candidates have to be selected through admission tests.
Each class has its own tutor, whose function is to integrate the student into the group and to pay attention to their academic performance. Furthermore, at Comillas, the teaching system is distinguished, among other characteristics, by the personalised attention and the fluid and permanent relationship between teachers and students.
The Comillas education system is especially oriented towards the relationship with the reality of companies, institutions, organisations and professional practice. The Careers, Internships and Employment Guidance Service (OPE) is responsible for providing students with internships related to their studies in order to enrich their training. In the 2022-23 academic year, 7,101 student internships in companies were managed.
The Professional Careers, Internships and Employment Guidance Service (OPE) is the University's service dedicated to informing, guiding and collaborating in the insertion of recent graduates in the labour market or in the projection of the professional careers of Comillas graduates, for which it has an online tool that directly connects candidates with 8,302 companies with which Comillas maintains a relationship. During the 2022-23 academic year, 1,542 job offers were managed. Of the total number of graduates from the 2021 graduating class, 92% are employed, either working or furthering their studies, within six months of completing their studies.
Contact us if you need help
Prospective Students Office
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences C/ Universidad Comillas, 3 - 28049 Madrid (Cantoblanco Campus) Tel.: 34 91 542 28 00
futurosalumnos@comillas.edu
Director of the Master:
D.Carlos Pitillas Salvá
cpitilla s@comillas.edu
