Recent 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

    1. 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

    • 2. Intersession

    1st year
  • Writing (1st Year Cohort)
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Groups
    • 3rd year
  • Special Topics
  • Writing (3rd Year Cohort)

    • 3. 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: Engaging the Patient, Understanding the Mind, Recognizing Process
  • After Freud: Development of Psychoanalytic Thought and Theory
    • 3rd year
  • Human Development II: Middle Childhood, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of Dreams

    • 4. Spring Term

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

    • 2025-26

    1. Fall Term

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Fall Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Fall Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference III (Fall Term)
    • 4th year
  • Human Development III: Established Adulthood to Old Age
  • Relational and Intersubjective Theories
    • 2nd year
  • British Object Relations I
  • Analytic Core Concepts II

    • 2. Intersession

    4th year
  • Crafting a Psychoanalytics Anew – A Brief Course on Psychoanalytic Writing
    • 2nd year
  • Writing with Emphasis on Microprocess
  • Community Psychoanalysis
    • Mixed Cohorts
  • Special Topics I: Trauma and Primitive Mental States: A Bionian Perspective
  • Special Topics II: Becoming Analysts – The Development of Psychoanalytic Identity

    • 3. Winter Term

    Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Winter Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Winter Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference III (Winter Term)
    • 2nd year
  • Human Development I: Birth to 5
  • Psychopathology II: Borderline-Level Character and Symptom Disorders
    • 4th year
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Bion Field Theory
  • Freud II

    • 4. Spring Term

    4th year
  • Ending Psychoanalysis
  • Integrative Seminar: Comparative Theory and Technique
    • 2nd year
  • Deepening Psychoanalysis
  • Object Relations II: The British Independent Group and American Object Relations
    • Mixed Cohorts
  • Continuous Case Conference I (Spring Term)
  • Continuous Case Conference II (Spring Term)

    • 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

    3. 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

    • Adult Psychoanalytic Psychology 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