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Program

What is the IPP?

In 2012, with collaborators Mariette Lepage M.Ps., Claudine Lepage M.Ps. and Silvia Lipari M.A., Odile Husain inaugurated

« l’Institut de Psychologie Projective (IPP) »  (Institute of Projective Psychology) in order to officialize her training program which was initiated in 1994 and has since then been accredited by the Quebec Order of Psychologists (OPQ). The IPP is a group of clinical psychologists, with a psychodynamic orientation, specialized in personality assessment using projective methods. IPP members share common theoretical references: the method for projective test interpretation singled out by this group involves psychodynamic speech analysis based on investigations done by the Swiss Group called « École de Lausanne ». This group’s comprehensive framework of psychopathology is based on a structural approach inspired by the works of Jean Bergeret.

What does the IPP do?

The IPP has given itself the mandate to promote the field of projective methods among psychologists and graduate students in clinical psychology, by offering information services, comprehensive, in-depth training to individuals or supervisory groups, as well as providing professional consultation and support. Through these means, the IPP looks forward to the establishment of projective methods as a genuine field specialty within the practice of clinical psychology. In support of Quebec’s « Loi 21 » voted in June 2012, the IPP is thus fully engaged in the development of skills held exclusively by psychologists in the field of assessment and diagnosis of mental disorders. The IPP believes that a psychologist specialized in personality assessment with projective methods is called on to play a key role in shedding light upon a subject’s unresolved mental issues.

Activities 2025 

The Institute of Projective Psychology (IPP), Continuing Education Program

« Évaluation de la personnalité : premier acte thérapeutique. Approche structurale et méthodes projectives » (Personality Assessment: A First Therapeutic Act. A Structural Approach with Projective Methods).

This training will be dispensed in French, primarily via Zoom.

  • Levels I, II, III, IV and V are offered to psychologists in Montreal and surroundings. We are also accepting a few French-speaking psychologists from around the world, following an interview process.

Postgraduate seminars

  • The seminar on contraindications to psychotherapy is offered to post-gradudate psychologists of the IPP.

  • The seminar of group supervision is offered to postgaduate psychologists of the IPP.

  • The seminar on the polysemy of obsession is offered to psychologists who have completed the integration seminar.

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