There are three categories of CFAR membership:

Full Membership

There are four ways to obtain Full Membership, depending on the candidates background:

• Associate Member (Clinical Affiliate)
• Associate Member (Non-CFAR training)
• Associate Member (CFAR training)
• CFAR Training

Associate Membership

There are three ways to obtain Associate Membership, depending on the candidate’s background and formation:

• Clinical Affiliate Member
• Lacanian psychoanalysts who have trained elsewhere
• Trainees of CFAR who have completed four years of the training programme

Affiliate Membership

Clinical Affiliate
The minimum necessary requirement is a psychoanalytic training in another tradition than Lacanian Psychoanalysis. This is a necessary but by no means a sufficient requirement to be accepted on the Clinical Affiliate track.

Non-Clinical Affiliate
The minimum necessary requirement is training/education/experience in fields related to psychoanalysis. This is a necessary but by no means a sufficient requirement to be accepted on the Non-Clinical Affiliate Track.