Scholarships
Ethnic Minority Fund
That same commitment ICP has to core values led to establishing a Minority Scholarship Fund, an initiative designed to increase the number of ethnic minorities entering psychoanalytic training at ICP. This fund is intended to help correct a significant inequity – the lack of ethnic diversity that has characterized the psychoanalytic profession as a whole. There are only 50 African-American psychoanalysts in the entire U.S. – and only three practicing in Los Angeles, one of the most racially and ethnically diverse communities in the world. Similar numbers relate the Asian and Hispanic Communities as well. The mostly white racial uniformity of psychoanalytic practitioners has failed to reflect the unique and particular experiences of ethnic minority individuals, which in turn has led to the virtual exclusion of psychoanalytic treatment as a viable option to ethnic minority individuals.The goal of ICP's Minority Scholarship Fund is to attract and enable qualified ethnic minority candidates to obtain psychoanalytic training at ICP. Recipients of the scholarship, in turn, will be expected to provide training or direct service to mental health agencies with proven track records of serving ethnic minority communities. ICP feels confident that offering financial assistance will serve as an important incentive for many talented and qualified ethnic minority therapists for whom psychoanalytic training has been financially prohibitive. Many ethnic professionals serve populations that are economically marginalized, reducing their earnings and thus their ability to afford training they might otherwise pursue.
This scholarship may be applied for during the Admissions process.