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
- Laplanche
- Unconscious Phantasy and its Relationship to Projective Identification: Historical and Clinical Perspectives
- Impasses in Psychoanalysis
- Mentalization
- Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
- The '"Difficult to Reach' Patient - Meltzer