Curriculum: Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program

Monthly Child Study Group that focuses on one topic for the entire year (Hybrid with in person and Zoom). 2024-2025 is the Erotic Field for Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Bimonthly Case Conference on Zoom that addresses case development, clinical assessment, theoretical and technical psychoanalytic approaches, and work with parents. Supervised clinical work with cases spanning early childhood, latency, adolescence to emerging adulthood.

  • Infant Observation
  • Introduction to Child Analysis
  • Human Development I, II, III: Infancy/Childhood/Latency/Adolescence
  • Psychoanalysis of Children and Families
  • Continuous Child Case Conference
  • Saturday Child Study Group Meeting
  • History of Child Analysis and Early Contributions
    • Classical Articles of Child Analysis
    • Transference/Countertransference Issues in Child
    • Analysis and Work with Parents
    • Contributions of Melanie Klein & Others to Technique
    • Play and Technique in Child Psychoanalysis
    • Current Contributions to Child Analysis