Recent Schedules and Syllabi

Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program

2020-21

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

    • 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)

    • 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

    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 (2017-18)