Curriculum: Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
Below is an outline of courses we offer in the program:
First Year
- Overview of Psychoanalytic Theory
- Ethics and Boundaries
- Freudian Approaches
- Kleinian Perspectives
- British Object Relations
- Lacan
- Self-Psychological Perspectives
- Relational & Intersubjective Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
- Mentalization & Attachment from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
- The Life Cycle 1: Infancy & Attachment
- The Life Cycle 2: Early & Mid Childhood: Pre-Oedipal & Latency
- The Life Cycle 3: Adolescence
- The Life Cycle 4: Adulthood
- The Life Cycle 5: Aging/Death/Mourning
- Jung
- Diversity Considerations in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Sex & Gender
- Gay and Lesbian Affirmative Analytic Perspectives
- Debriefing
Second Year
- Defining Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Principles of Long Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Assessment & Management of Transference, Counter-Transference & Resistance
- Theory & Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Treatment Potentials
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Trauma
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Pharmacology
- Use of Dreams
- Psychoanalytic Approaches to Couples Therapy
- Symptom Disorders 1: Anxiety
- Symptom Disorders 2: Mood Disorders, Depressive, Bipolar, Impulse Control
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Psychosis
- Eating Disorders
- Addiction
- Somatizing Disorders
- Paranoid, Schizoid & Psychopathic
- Avoidant, Dependent, Anti-Social, Obsessive Compulsive
- Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
- Community Psychoanalysis
- Ending Treatment
- Debriefing