Recent Schedules and Syllabi

Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program

2023-24

1st Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Psychoanalytic Dyadic Perspectives on Human Development: From Birth through The Second Year of Life
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II

    • 4th year

    1st Trimester
  • Elective: Character: A Revisiting
  • Infant Observation II (1st Trimester)
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Infant Observation II (2nd Trimester)
  • Elective: The Body
  • Becoming Analysts, Development of PSA Identity
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Late Middle Phase/Termination

    • 2nd year

    1st Trimester
  • Infant Observation I (1st Trimester)
  • Ego Psychology, Modern Structural Theory, American Object Relations
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Infant Observation I (2nd Trimester)
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline-level Character Pathology
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Infant Observation I (3rd Trimester)
  • Infant Observation II (3rd Trimester)
  • Middle Phase

    • 2022-23

    1st Trimester
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference II
  • Intro to Infant Observation

    • 3rd year

    1st Trimester
  • Loss, Mourning, Transformation
  • British Object Relations
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Self Psychology
  • The Relational Psychoanalytic Orientation
    • 3rd Trimester
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
  • Genders & Sexualities
  • Psychopathology III: Psychosis: Considerations for Diagnosis and Treatment in Psychoanalytic Practice

    • 1st year

    1st Trimester
  • Process I: Starting a Psychoanalysis; Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy (Including Evolving Ethics of Psychoanalysis) 
  • Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Process II: Early Analytic Process and Psychoanalytic Ethics
  • After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic-Level Character and Symptom Disorders
  • Intersectionality, Social Context, and the Co-Creation of Clinical Experience

    • 2021-22

    1st Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference IV
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III

    • 4th year

    1st Trimester
  • Psychopathology III: Psychotic States
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
    • 2nd Trimester
  • 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
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Late Middle Phase to Termination

    • 2nd year

    1st Trimester
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
  • Ego Psychology
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Development II: 6-12 Years
  • Middle Phase
    • 3rd Trimester
  • HD: Adolescence
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline States

    • 2020-21

    3rd Trimester
  • Case Conference I
  • Case Conference II
  • Case Conference III
  • Case Conference IV

    • 3rd year

    1st Trimester
  • British Object Relations
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Theory: Self Psychology
  • Development II: 6 to 12 years
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Development III: Adolescence
  • The Relational Psychoanalytic Orientation

    • 1st year

    1st Trimester
  • Starting Psychoanalysis: Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy, Including Evolving Ethics of Psychoanalysis
  • Introduction to Psychoanalytic Listening
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase to Early Middle Phase (with Introduction to Psychoanalytic Writing)
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic-Level Personality and Symptom Disorders
  • Intersectionality, Social Context and the Co-Creation of Clinical Experience
  • Ethics

    • 2019-20

    4th year

    1st Trimester
  • Human Development: Aging
  • Psychopathology III: Psychotic States
  • Gender and Sexuality
    • 2nd Trimester
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams
  • Neuropsychoanalysis
  • How did I Get Here? Evolving Analytic Identity
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Process: Late Middle Phase and Termination
  • Elective: Field Theory and Development of the Self of the Analyst

    • 2nd year

    1st Trimester
  • Human Development: Infant Observation (3 Trimesters)
  • Theory: Modern Structural Theory (Post-Freudian Ego Psychology) and American Object Relations
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Process: Middle Phase
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline States

    • 2018-19

    3rd year

    1st Trimester
  • Human Development: Child Development I (Birth to Age 5)
  • Theory: British Object Relations
    • 2nd Trimester
  • HD: Child Development II (Ages 6-12)
  • Theory: Self Psychology
    • 3rd Trimester
  • HD: Adolescence (Ages 13-20)
  • Theory: Intersubjective & Relational Psychoanalytic Theories

    • 1st year

    1st Trimester
  • Development Of Psychoanalytic Cases: Evaluation for Psychoanalysis and the Opening Phase
  • The Origins of Psychoanalysis and Freud’s Legacy
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase
  • Theory: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology I: Neurotic
  • Process: Ethics
  • Process: Diversity

    • 2017-18

    4th year

    1st Trimester
  • HD: Adolescence
  • Theory: Intersubjective & Relational PSA Theories
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Theory: Gender & Sexuality
  • Theory: Dreams
  • Theory: Neuropsychoanalysis
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Process: Late Middle Phase and Termination
  • Elective: Applied PSA – Society & Culture

    • 2nd year

    1st Trimester
  • HD: Infant Observation (3 trimesters)
  • Theory: Modern Structural Theory
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Process: Middle Phase
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology

    • 2016-17

    3rd year

    1st Trimester
  • HD: 18 Months to 7 Years
  • Theory: British Object Relations
    • 2nd Trimester
  • HD: Latency
  • Theory: Self Psychology
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology III
  • Process: Advanced Perspectives on Engaging in PSA

    • 1st year

    1st Trimester
  • Process: Evaluation for PSA
  • Theory: Origins of PSA and Freud’s Legacy
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Process: Continuation of Opening Phase
  • Theory: Overview of Major PSA Theories
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Psychopathology
  • Theory: Ethics

    • Child Psychoanalytic Training Program

    2023-24

    1st Trimester
  • Adolescence
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Clinical Applications in Work with Adolescents
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Continuous Case Conference: Adolescence

    • 2022-23

    1st Trimester
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood (6-12 years)
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood 2
  • Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis in Middle Childhood 3
    • 3rd Trimester
  • Play in Middle Childhood
  • Continuous Case Conference

    • 2022-22

    3rd Trimester
  • Child Psychoanalytic Training Seminar

    • 2021-22

    1st Trimester
  • Psychoanalytic Treatment in Early Childhood (aka Pre-Latency)
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Clinical Applications in Child Psychoanalysis

    • 2020-21

    1st year

    1st Trimester
  • Foundations of Child Psychoanalysis
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Foundations of Child Psychoanalysis – Clinical Applications

    • 2019-20

    1st Trimester
  • Pre-latency: Development and Treatment
    • 2nd Trimester
  • Pre-latency: Clinical Applications

    • 4th year

    3rd Trimester
  • Elective: Application of Modern Psychoanalytic Theory with Children

    • 2018-19

    1st Trimester
  • Introduction To Child Analysis

    • 2017-18

    1st Trimester
  • Clinical Issues in the Treatment of Adolescents

    • 2016-17

    1st Trimester
  • Latency

    • Adult Psychoanalytic Psychology Program

    2019-20

    1st Block
  • Narcissistic & Borderline Conditions
  • Theory: Diversity and Intersectionality of Identity
    • 2nd Block
  • Theory: Topics in Gender and Sexuality
  • Dreams to Dreaming: A Psychoanalytic Approach
    • 3rd Block
  • Trauma
  • Deepening the Treatment: Transference, Countertransference and Enactments
    • 4th Block
  • Termination
  • Adult Development

    • 2018-19

    1st Block
  • Overview of Psychoanalytic History and Theory
  • What Makes Therapy Psychoanalytic?
    • 2nd Block
  • Object Relations Theory
  • Infancy, Attachment, and Primitive Processes
    • 3rd Block
  • Pre-Oedipal and Oedipal Development
  • Self Psychology
    • 4th Block
  • Adolescent Development
  • Relational Theory

    • 2017-18

    1st Block
  • Deepening the Treatment: Transference, Countertransference and Enactments