Past Schedules and Syllabi

Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program

2016-17

1st Trimester

1st year
  • Process: Evaluation for PSA
  • Theory: Origins of PSA and Freud’s Legacy
  • 3rd year
  • HD: 18 Months to 7 Years
  • Theory: British Object Relations
  • 2nd Trimester

    1st year
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase
  • Theory: Overview of Major PSA Theories
  • 3rd year
  • HD: Latency
  • Theory: Self Psychology
  • 3rd Trimester

    1st year
  • Psychopathology
  • Theory: Ethics
  • 3rd year
  • Psychopathology III
  • Process: Advanced Perspectives on Engaging in PSA
  • 2017-18

    1st Trimester

    2nd year
  • HD: Infant Observation (3 trimesters)
  • Theory: Modern Structural Theory
  • 4th year
  • HD: Adolescence
  • Theory: Intersubjective & Relational PSA Theories
  • 2nd Trimester

    2nd year
  • Process: Middle Phase
  • 4th year
  • Theory: Gender & Sexuality
  • Theory: Dreams
  • Theory: Neuropsychoanalysis
  • 3rd Trimester

    2nd year
  • Psychopathology
  • 4th year
  • Process: Late Middle Phase and Termination
  • Elective: Applied PSA – Society & Culture
  • 2018-19

    1st Trimester

    1st year
  • Development Of Psychoanalytic Cases: Evaluation for Psychoanalysis and the Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy
  • 3rd year
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
  • Theory: British Object Relations
  • 2nd Trimester

    1st year
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase
  • Theory: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
  • 3rd year
  • HD: Child Development II (Ages 6-12)
  • Theory: Self Psychology
  • 3rd Trimester

    1st year
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic
  • Process: Ethics
  • Process: Diversity
  • 3rd year
  • HD: Adolescence (Ages 13-20)
  • Theory: Intersubjective & Relational Psychoanalytic Theories
  • 2019-20

    1st Trimester

    4th year
  • Human Development: Aging
  • Psychopathology III: Psychotic States
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • 2nd year
  • Human Development: Infant Observation (3 Trimesters)
  • Theory: Modern Structural Theory (Post-Freudian Ego Psychology) and American Object Relations
  • 2nd Trimester

    4th year
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • How did I Get Here? Evolving Analytic Identity
  • 2nd year
  • Process: Middle Phase
  • 3rd Trimester

    4th year
  • Process: Late Middle Phase and Termination
  • Elective: Field Theory and Development of the Self of the Analyst
  • 2nd year
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline States
  • 2020-21

    1st Trimester

    3rd year
  • British Object Relations
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
  • 1st year
  • Starting Psychoanalysis: Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy, Including Evolving Ethics of Psychoanalysis
  • Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
  • 2nd Trimester

    3rd year
  • Theory: Self Psychology
  • Development II: 6 to 12 years
  • 1st year
  • Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase to Early Middle Phase (with Introduction to Psychoanalytic Writing)
  • 3rd Trimester

    3rd year
  • Development III: Adolescence
  • The Relational Psychoanalytic Orientation
  • 1st year
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic-Level Personality and Symptom Disorders
  • Intersectionality, Social Context and the Co-Creation of Clinical Experience
  • Ethics
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference IV
  • 2021-22

    1st Trimester

    2nd year
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
  • Ego Psychology
  • 4th year
  • Psychopathology III: Psychotic States
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference IV
  • 2nd Trimester

    4th year
  • Human Development: Aging
  • Elective: Self-Disclosure in Relational Psychoanalysis
  • Elective: A Comparative Look at Understanding and Working with Aggression in Psychoanalysis
  • Genders and Sexualities
  • Elective: D.W. Winnicott
  • Becoming Psychoanalysts: The Development of a Psychoanalytic Identity
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • 2nd year
  • Development II: 6-12 Years
  • Middle Phase
  • 3rd Trimester

    4th year
  • Late Middle Phase to Termination
  • 2nd year
  • HD: Adolescence
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline States
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • 2022-23

    1st Trimester

    1st year
  • Process I: Starting a Psychoanalysis; Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy (Including Evolving Ethics of Psychoanalysis) 
  • Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • 3rd year
  • Loss, Mourning, Transformation
  • British Object Relations
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • 1st year
  • Process II: Early Analytic Process and Psychoanalytic Ethics
  • After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
  • 3rd year
  • Self Psychology
  • The Relational Psychoanalytic Orientation
  • 3rd Trimester

    3rd year
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
  • Genders & Sexualities
  • Psychopathology III: Psychosis: Considerations for Diagnosis and Treatment in Psychoanalytic Practice
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference II
  • Intro to Infant Observation
  • 1st year
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic-Level Character and Symptom Disorders
  • Intersectionality, Social Context, and the Co-Creation of Clinical Experience
  • 2023-24

    1st Trimester

    2nd year
  • Infant Observation I (1st Trimester)
  • Ego Psychology, Modern Structural Theory, American Object Relations
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Psychoanalytic Dyadic Perspectives on Human Development: From Birth through The Second Year of Life
  • 4th year
  • Elective: Character: A Revisiting
  • Infant Observation II (1st Trimester)
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • Reading Freud II
  • 2nd year
  • Infant Observation I (2nd Trimester)
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline States
  • 4th year
  • Infant Observation II (2nd Trimester)
  • Elective — The Body in Psychoanalysis: Inside, Outside, and In-Between
  • Becoming Analysts: The Development of Psychoanalytic Identity
  • Reading Freud I
  • 3rd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • 4th Year Independent Study
  • 2nd year
  • Infant Observation I (3rd Trimester)
  • Infant Observation II (3rd Trimester)
  • The Middle Phase
  • 4th year
  • Late Middle Phase/Termination
  • 2024-25

    Fall Term

    1st year
  • Groups and Identity I
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy
  • Analytic Core Concepts I
  • Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Fall Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Fall Term)
  • 3rd year
  • British Object Relations
  • Human Development 1 (Birth to Age 5) and Developmental Psychoanalysis
  • Intersession

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Writing
  • 1st year
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Groups
  • 3rd year
  • Special Topics
  • Spring Term

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Spring Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Spring Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference III (Spring Term)
  • 1st year
  • Ego Psychology
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic Psychopathology
  • 3rd year
  • Psychopathology III: Severe Character Pathology and Psychotic-Level Syndromes
  • Self Psychology
  • Winter Term

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Winter Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Winter Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference III (Winter Term)
  • 1st year
  • Beginning Analysis
  • History of Psychoanalysis
  • 3rd year
  • Human Development II: Middle Childhood to Early Adulthood
  • Theory and Process of Dreams

  • Child Psychoanalytic Training Program

    2016-17

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Latency
  • 2017-18

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Adolescents
  • 2018-19

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Introduction To Child Analysis
  • 2019-20

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Pre-latency: Development and Treatment
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Pre-latency: Clinical Applications
  • 3rd Trimester

    4th year
  • Elective: Application of Modern Psychoanalytic Theory with Children
  • 2020-21

    1st Trimester

    1st year
  • Foundations of Child Psychoanalysis
  • 2nd Trimester

    1st year
  • Foundations of Child Psychoanalysis – Clinical Applications
  • 2021-22

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Psychoanalytic Treatment in Early Childhood (aka Pre-Latency)
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Clinical Applications in Child Psychoanalysis
  • 2022-22

    Winter Term

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Child Psychoanalytic Training Seminar
  • 2022-23

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood (6-12 years)
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood 2
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood 3
  • 3rd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Play in Middle Childhood
  • Continuous Case Conference
  • 2023-24

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Adolescence
  • 2nd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Clinical Applications in Work with Adolescents
  • 3rd Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference: Adolescence
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    2-Year Certificate Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

    2022-23

    1st Term

  • Identity and Groups I
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Foundational Theory
  • 2nd Term

  • Life Span Development I
  • Concepts of Analytic Process
  • 3rd Term

  • Object Relations
  • Case Conference: Imagining the Patient
  • 4th Term

  • Life Span Development II
  • Case Conference: Meaning-Making
  • 2023-24

    1st Term

  • Sexualities
  • Self Psychology & Intersubjective Systems Theory
  • 2nd Term

  • Introduction to Relational and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis
  • Case Conference: Dreaming
  • 3rd Term

  • Case Conference: Embodying
  • Traumas
  • 4th Term

  • Mourning, Loss, and Grief
  • Identity and Groups II
  • 2024-25

    1st Term

  • Groups and Identity I (Cohort 2)
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Foundational Theory (Cohort 2)
  • Groups and Identity I (Cohort 1)
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Foundational Theory (Cohort 1)
  • 2nd Term

  • Life Span Development I
  • Concepts of Analytic Process
  • 3rd Term

  • Case Conference: Imagining
  • Group Process
  • 4th Term

  • Object Relations
  • Case Conference: Meaning-Making
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    Continuing Education

    2021-22

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Enhancing Our Individual and Group Life
  • 2022-23

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Speaking About Race II
  • 2023-24

    1st Trimester

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Faculty Development Sessions
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    integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program

    2020-21

    1st Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Infancy and Attachment: Towards an Understanding of our Earliest Ways of Knowing
  • What Makes Therapy Psychoanalytic?
  • 2nd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Pre-Oedipal and Oedipal Development
  • An Introduction to Object Relations Theory
  • 3rd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Self Psychology
  • Development: Latency (The Middle Years)
  • 4th Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Adolescent Development
  • Relational Psychoanalysis
  • 2021-22

    1st Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Sexuality
  • Starting Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Ethics in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • 2nd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Deepening the Treatment: Transference, Countertransference and Enactments
  • Dreams
  • Psychoanalytic Engagement and the Dynamic Structure of the Central Nervous System
  • 3rd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • iCAPP Case Conference
  • Trauma
  • Borderline and Narcissistic Conditions
  • 4th Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Loss, Mourning, and Termination
  • Adult Development
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    Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program

    2017-18

    1st Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Deepening the Treatment: Transference, Countertransference and Enactments
  • 2018-19

    1st Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Overview of Psychoanalytic History and Theory
  • What Makes Therapy Psychoanalytic?
  • 2nd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Object Relations Theory
  • Infancy, Attachment, and Primitive Processes
  • 3rd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Pre-Oedipal and Oedipal Development
  • Self Psychology
  • 4th Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Adolescent Development
  • Relational Theory
  • 2019-20

    1st Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Narcissistic & Borderline Conditions
  • Theory: Diversity and Intersectionality of Identity
  • 2nd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Theory: Topics in Gender and Sexuality
  • Dreams to Dreaming: A Psychoanalytic Approach
  • 3rd Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Trauma
  • Deepening the Treatment: Transference, Countertransference and Enactments
  • 4th Block

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Termination
  • Adult Development
  •