Curriculum: Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program
First Year
- Infant Observation
- Exploring Core Concepts in Psychoanalysis
- Struggling with the Unconscious―Early Freud I
- Mapping the Polymorphous Body—Early Freud II
- Unearthing the Dynamic Psyche—Later Freud I
- The Unconscious at Work—Dreams
- Focusing on the Ego at Work—Ego Psychology
- Protecting the Frame―Ethics
- Introduction to Child Analysis
- Clinical Practice I— Conversion & Building a Psychoanalytic Practice
- Clinical Practice II— Beginning Technique Analytic Process
- Evolution of Psychoanalytic Approaches
- How One Comes to Know—Epistemology
- Presenting & Observing Psychoanalytic Work— Case Conference I
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference II
Second Year
- Focusing on the Self—Self Psychology
- Evolution of Theory II—Klein
- Finding One Self and Objects Inside and Outside—Object Relations
- Evolution of Theory III—Winnicott I
- Introduction to Relational Theory
- Reflecting on the Baby’s Experience—Infant Development
- Discovering the Process of Human Linking—Styles of Attachment
- Studying the Growing Child—Child Development
- Exploring the Expanding Inner and Outer World of Adolescents
- Getting the Case on Paper—Psychoanalytic Writing I
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference III
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference IV
Third Year
- Evolution of Theory IV—Bion
- Transference & Counter-transference—Clinical Practice III
- Trauma and Dissociation
- Sexuality and Desire: Development and Conflict
- Gender
- Mood Disorder—Depression and Mania
- Character, Personality Disorders
- Focusing on Intersubjectivity
- Relational Theory II
- Mind & Body—Psychosomatics
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference V
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference VI
Fourth Year
- Inhibitions, Symptoms, Anxiety—Later Freud II
- Addictions
- Couples
- Primitive Mental States
- Getting the Case on Paper—Psychoanalytic Writing II
- Ethics
- Research Methods
- Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
- Relational Theory III
- Clinical Practice V—Termination
- Superego Friend or Foe?
- Clinical Practice IV—Impasses in Psychoanalysis
- Advanced Dreams
- Existential Dimension of Psychoanalysis
- Winnicott II– On Madness
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference VII
- Presenting and Observing the Work—Case Conference VIII
Electives
- Jung
- Klein (Advanced)
- Meltzer
- Mentalization
- Motivational Systems
- Psychosomatic Disorders
- Psychoanalysis & Cinema
- Reflective Parenting
- Lacan
- Ferenczi
- Advanced Bion
CE Policy
The Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program offers CE/CME credits where indicated. Please review current class schedule.