Curriculum: Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program

First Year

  • Infant Observation
  • Exploring Core Concepts in Psychoanalysis
  • Diversities
  • Struggling with the Unconscious―Early Freud
  • Unearthing the Dynamic Psyche—Later Freud I
  • Freud: The Unconscious at Work—Dreams
  • Later Freud II
  • Getting It On Paper I: Writing Psychoanalytic Reports
  • Introduction to Child Psychoanalysis
  • Clinical Practice II— Beginning Technique Analytic Process
  • Evolution of Psychoanalytic Approaches
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work— Case Conference I
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference II

Second Year

  • Ethics
  • Evolution of Theory I —Ego Psychology: The Mind in Conflict, The Ego at Work 
  • Evolution of Theory II—Klein
  • Evolution of Theory III—Object Relations
  • Evolution of Theory IV—Winnicott I
  • Clinical Practice III—Interpretative Process Viewed in the Context of the Analytic Relationship
  • Reflecting on the Baby’s Experience—Infancy
  • Studying the Growing Child—Child Development
  • Exploring the Expanding Inner and Outer World of Adolescence
  • Sex and Gender
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference III
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference IV

Third Year

  • Evolution of Theory V—British Middle School
  • Evolution of Theory VI—Self Psychology
  • Evolution of Theory VII – Intersubjectivity
  • Evolution of Theory VIII – Relational I
  • Clinical Practice IV—Deepening the Treatment: Transference & Countertransference
  • Trauma and Dissociation
  • Advanced Dreams
  • Superego
  • Styles of Attachment
  • Adult Development
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference V
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference VI

Fourth Year

  • Evolution of Theory IX—Bion
  • Evolution of Theory X – Relational II
  • Evolution of Theory XI— Lacan
  • Evolution of Theory XII— Neo-Kleinians
  • Clinical Practice V—Advanced Technique
  • Clinical Practice VI—Treatment Endings
  • Research Methods
  • Existential Dimensions in Psychoanalysis
  • Getting It On Paper II—Writing Psychoanalytic Reports
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference VII
  • Presenting and Observing Psychoanalytic Work—Case Conference VIII

Post Seminar Courses & Electives

  • Integration of Theory - Colloquium Prep
  • Laplanche
  • Unconscious Phantasy and its Relationship to Projective Identification: Historical and Clinical Perspectives
  • The Writings of Sandor Ferenczi
  • Clinical Associates Didactic
  • Dynamics of Coupling
  • Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships
  • Impasses in Psychoanalysis
  • Mentalization
  • Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalysis & Film