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The New Center for Psychoanalysis is pleased to present its Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. It provides an innovative course of study for enhancing knowledge and skills of mental health practitioners and clinicians from the various mental health fields. Psychiatric residents must have completed their first year of residency training. Applicants complete a form and are interviewed by the Director of the Program.
Only at a ceremony honoring the graduates of the two-year Program will certificates be awarded verifyingsatisfactory completion of the requirements. Since the inception of our Program in 1990, we have graduated 190 students, many of whom have lauded their experience as having taught them a superior way to look at and work with their patients.
Although this program is separate from the Psychoanalytic Training School, most of the courses are taught by faculty members (many of whom are Training and Supervisory Analysts), who have expertise in the areas they will be teaching. The objective is to provide students with a sophisticated educational experience at the cutting edge of current thinking and to expose them to significant issues of psychoanalytic clinical technique and theory for the purpose of increasing psychotherapeutic acumen.
Efforts are made to complement and interdigitate clinical and theoretical seminars with each other. Important objectives are to demonstrate the unique characteristics of each therapeutic encounter and the need to tailor and fashion therapy to meet specific psychological needs of the patient.
The Program is scheduled for Wednesday evenings beginning in late September. Seminar sessions are offered for a first year which consists of an overall survey of essential aspects of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.While we consider this survey as representing a heuristic entity unto itself, in addition, we recommend that the student proceed to the second year in which there will be an exploration in-depth of significant areas, including personality development throughout the life cycle.
In addition to seminars, two-hour case consultation sessions are scheduled to take place immediately preceding the seminar sessions, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.A light supper will be served during the consultative sessions. Some flexibility in scheduling of consultation sessions will be provided if necessary for students with work commitments that preclude attendance at 5:00 pm. Students are divided into small groups and are encouraged to present a variety of cases, since emphasis will be placed on the use of clinical material for heuristic purposes, rather than for ongoing supervision. Consultants are changed three times yearly thus providing an opportunity for students to be exposed to a variety of experienced therapists.
Students have an opportunity of presenting cases at many sessions.When not presenting, a student is able to participate in discussion of fellow group membersÕ cases. Students wishing elective individual consultation or supervision, in addition to group consultation, will have this service available to them. A list of experienced consultants will be provided and fees will be set in accordance with what is affordable.
This Program will admit students of any race, color, sex, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded to or made available to students at the Institute. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.
The curriculum is organized so that a theoretical and a clinical seminar are given on each evening that the class meets.The theoretical courses for the first year commence with an overview of psychoanalytic theory including Freud's seminal teachings and later goes on to introduce the odyssey of psychoanalytic thought since Freud. The courses continue by covering issues pertaining to hysteria, phobia, and obsessional neuroses, dreams, depression and mania, trauma, the theory of borderline and narcissistic disorders, psychosomatic conditions, and the addictions.
The clinical courses of the first year begin with an introduction to psychoanalytic therapy and on to treatment potentials and limitations, issues of evaluation of the patient, the first therapy session and initial dynamic formulation, transference and counter- transference, psychoanalytic psychotherapy technique, treatment associated defenses, problems of psychotherapy, including the silent patient and suicidal patient, and finally a course on brief dynamic psychotherapies.
In the second year theory features development, beginning with an introduction which focuses on the relationship of development to psychotherapy with adults. Continuing on are courses including Infancy, the Oedipal and Latency years, Adolescence and finally a course on major dynamic issues arising during adult life.
In addition there are courses on sexual issues, psychoses, and a brief psychopharmacology survey course. The clinical courses of the second year feature four courses on models of the mind, including clinical and theoretical aspects of the schools of Klein and Bion, Object Relations, of Self-Psychology including Intersubjectivity and of Winnicott. In addition courses are offered on the treatment of Borderline and Narcissistic Personalities and Termination.
A $50 non-refundable application fee must be included with the application. Tuition is $1800 per year, plus $200 for materials; $1000 to be paid at the time of enrollment and prior to the commencement of each subsequent semester. Tuition includes group consultations.
Participants will have the privilege of using the Institute's library. In addition, they will be invited to attend the Society's and Institute's scientific meetings, and will be offered as well the opportunity of participating in various other Society and Institute activities.
If you are interested in applying for the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy you can download the application. If you'd like more information, please contact the Institute at 310.478.6541 or the Director:
Bruce Gainsley, M.D.
15300 Ventura Blvd., Suite 525
Sherman Oaks, CA 91356
Tel: 818.906.8515