Curriculum: Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program

Below is an outline of courses we offer in the program:

 

First Year

  • Ethics and Boundaries
  • Freudian Approaches
  • Kleinian Perspectives
  • British Object Relations
  • Lacan
  • Self-Psychological Perspectives
  • Relational & Intersubjective Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
  • 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
  • Diversity Decolonization of Mental Health Practices
  • Sex & Gender
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Couples and Attachment
  • Myths of Psychoanalysis

 

Second Year

  • Assessment & Management of Transference, Counter-Transference & Resistance
  • Theory & Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Trauma
  • Clinical Use of Dreams
  • Anxiety
  • Mood Disorders
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Psychosis
  • Eating Disorders
  • Addiction
  • Somatizing Disorders
  • Paranoid, Schizoid & Psychopathic
  • Avoidant, Dependent, Anti-Social, Obsessive Compulsive
  • Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
  • Ending Treatment
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Psychedelic Medicine
  • Character Structure
  • Starting a Practice
  • Informed Consent
  • Depersonalization