First Year

Fall Trimester
Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory I
Psychoanalytic Process I: In the Room
Experiencing Psychoanalysis

Winter Trimester
Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory II
Psychoanalytic Process II: The Therapeutic Relationship
Culture with Psychoanalysis in Mind

Spring Trimester
Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory III
Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis
Development I: The Baby

Second Year

Fall Trimester
Transference/Countertransference I
Freud I
Dreams I

Winter Trimester
Transference/Countertransference II
Freud II
Development II

Spring Trimester
Ego Psychology/Contemporary Freud
Interpersonal Theory I
Object Relations I

Third Year

Fall Trimester
Interpersonal Theory II
Object Relations II
Relational Theory I

Winter Trimester
Dreams II
Relational Theory II
Writing/Couples

Spring Trimester
Love & Power
Affect Regulation
Self-Psychology I

Fourth Year

Fall Trimester
Self-Psychology II
Advanced Therapeutic Action
Gender & Sexuality

Winter Trimester
Trauma & Dissociation
Psychotherapy Integration and Therapeutic Action
Intersubjectivity

Spring Trimester
Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Master Class
Endings

FIRST YEAR

All courses are 10 weeks unless otherwise noted.

FALL

Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory I 

This course explores the evolution of psychoanalytic theory from its origins to the 1950s, considering the contributions of theorists from the major theoretical traditions within the history of psychoanalysis. The theoretical positions to be examined include Freudian psychoanalysis, early theories of trauma, ego psychology, Kleinian psychoanalysis, and interpersonal psychoanalysis. 

Goal: Candidates will learn about the development of core psychoanalytic concepts, gaining a historical scaffold for understanding modern psychoanalysis, as well as an understanding of the psychoanalytic vocabulary necessary for formulating treatment and case planning with patients. 

Psychoanalytic Process I: In the Room 

This course introduces first-year candidates to the core elements of psychoanalytic process from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Readings, writing, and discussion will allow candidates to explore the beginnings of an analytic treatment in a broad relational context. 

Goal: Prepare candidates to consider issues such as the analytic frame, psychoanalytic diagnosis, goal setting and treatment planning, facilitating patient engagement, transference and countertransference, and enactments and ruptures as they relate to their clinical work. 

Experiencing Psychoanalysis 

This course provides a safe space to share and explore thoughts and feelings and give and receive support regarding the experiences of embarking on analytic training with a cohort of peers in the presence of an experienced group facilitator. Topics will include developing awareness of one’s own subjectivity and the subjectivity of others; identifying needs, both group and individual; diversity and inclusion; group dynamics; and the experience of being in training. Other topics may be addressed as they arise in discussion, such as the experience of being an analysand, navigating the treatment center, and differing theoretical perspectives. 

Goal: Support candidates as they begin their studies in psychoanalysis and provide a forum for discussing individual and group dynamics.

WINTER

Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory II

This course reviews the emergence and characteristics of different theoretical and clinical perspectives that contributed to the development of relational psychoanalysis, including Kleinian and neo-Kleinian approaches and contributions by the British Middle School. Through readings and discussion, the course will allow candidates to understand how and why these different perspectives emerged, their similarities and differences, and their relationship with Freudian perspectives. Clinical applications of these theoretical positions will be considered, particularly as they raise alternatives and controversies regarding clinical practice and therapeutic action. 

Goal: Provide candidates with an understanding of key psychoanalytic concepts developed post Freud, the historical context for their emergence, and their relationship with each other, as well as facilitate candidates’ increasing awareness of varied therapeutic techniques, including their use in case conceptualizations of various patient populations.

Psychoanalytic Process II: The Therapeutic Relationship

This course continues the development of candidates’ clinical work through applying theoretical concepts as they relate to technique. Course readings will illustrate paradigm shifts in conceptualizing transference/countertransference, resistance, the role of interpretation, enactments, and developmental and/or relational trauma, with particular attention to different theoretical models of the patient/analyst relationship and its contribution to therapeutic change. Candidates will present clinical material followed by extensive case discussion. The course supports candidates’ growing capacity to relate clinical material to theoretical concepts. Presentations will include case formulations that may propose differing lenses and theories with which to view the clinical work presented, including discussions of potential patient diagnosis and treatment planning.

Goal: Provide context and theoretical frameworks to support candidates’ clinical work in the four-year program. 

Culture with Psychoanalysis in Mind 

This course places in context psychoanalysis and the ways social, cultural and political themes find their way into the consulting room and affect and inform clinical work. For many years psychoanalysis considered itself outside of culture, a study of the most private, interior domains that yielded universal truths. Now, psychoanalysis recognizes that both the object of study—the psyche—and the discipline are inseparable from the larger sociopolitical world. The course will incorporate theory, literature, and clinical material focused on the systemic, ideological realities that shape the construction of meaning and the unconscious socio-political motives, attitudes, and prejudices we share with our patients. Categories such as race, class, nationality, gender, sexuality and their intersection will be explored, as well as their relationship to diagnoses and treatments. 

Goal: Give candidates an understanding of the cultural categories that inform and shape patients and analysts, preparing candidates to work with diverse populations. 

SPRING

Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory III 

This course continues the chronological study of the development of psychoanalysis, focusing on the emergence of the concept of the two-person field. Theoretical perspectives to be explored include interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis as they emerged in the late twentieth century and their subsequent evolution to the present. Through readings and discussion, candidates will understand how relational and interpersonal theorists have approached issues such as trauma, intersubjectivity and enactment, bringing the emphasis more and more to the new experience in treatment. Clinical applications of these theoretical positions will continue to be discussed, with case material serving as an important site of analysis for the course. 

Goal: Continue providing candidates with key psychoanalytical concepts within a historical framework and equipping them to apply them in a clinical context.

Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis

This class focuses on understanding what makes therapy work—the therapeutic action that brings about change. Candidates will encounter techniques designed to effect change, connecting these with their clinical work. The instructor will provide context for these techniques through exploring how different theoretical schools, from Freudian and object relations to interpersonal, self psychology, and contemporary relational, conceptualize therapeutic action.  

Goal: Support candidates in their clinical work through providing techniques designed to effect therapeutic action and contextualizing them within different models of therapeutic change. 

Development I: The Baby

This course will explore different psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the infant/toddler psyche, considering how infants interact with the world before the acquisition of language and identity. The focus will be on various aspects of primitive psychic processes and their manifestation in adult psychoanalysis, with candidates using clinical material to examine the connection between early infantile disturbances and later adult psychopathology. Countertransference will be explored as a method of discerning potential preverbal unconscious communication, helping the analyst effectively contain, think/feel, dream, nurture the capacity to play, survive, and construct a coherent narrative that contributes to a more stable sense of self in patients. 

Goal: Provide candidates with an understanding of different theoretical perspectives on human development in the initial years of life.

SUMMER

Medical Aspects of Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (4 weeks)

This course introduces candidates to psychopharmacology to assist their collaborations with medical professionals such as psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners. Topics will include neuroscience and the medical model of mental illness and will explore the medical understanding of mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, anxiety, and depression. The course will also address ADHD and reproductive health as well as disparities in access to care. 

Goal: Give candidates a foundation in the medical understanding of mental health, including diagnoses and treatments, and prepare them for collaborations with physicians, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and other health care providers.

Addictions (4 weeks)

This introductory course provides first-year candidates with an understanding of addictions from a relational psychoanalytic perspective. Topics to be discussed include substance abuse, binge eating disorder, sexual compulsivity as well as motivational interviewing and approaches to treatment. The key concepts of affect regulation and dissociation in working with these patients will be considered using clinical material.

Goal: Introduce candidates to key concepts and perspectives on addiction to prepare them for clinical work. 

Legal & Ethical Issues in Treatment (4 weeks)

This course will review the legal, statutory, and ethical issues related to practicing psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Topics will include fiduciary duty, ethics codes, informed consent, abandonment and termination, suicide, dangerousness, confidentiality, technology, HIPAA, record keeping and retention, fees, and insurance/managed care. 

Goal: Introduce candidates to the foundational legal, statutory, and ethical principles that govern and guide the profession and provide a forum for considering complex ethical issues.

SECOND YEAR

All courses are 12 weeks unless otherwise noted.

FALL

Freud I (1885–1920) 

This is the first of a two-course sequence on the work of Sigmund Freud, starting with his earliest writings. Key ideas to be explored include the unconscious, the nature of symptoms, drive, transference, repression, anxiety, trauma, fixation, repetition, and sexuality. 

Goal: Allow candidates to gain an understanding of Freud’s early psychoanalytic theory and connect key concepts with clinical work. 

Transference and Countertransference I

This is the first of two courses looking at the development of the concepts and clinical uses of transference/countertransference. This course begins with Freud’s identification of transference and will follow its evolution through the beginnings of the “relational turn.” This class will explore the different ways transference/countertransference phenomena have been understood over time; classical, ego psychology and Kleinian models of transference; neo-Kleinian, object relations, self psychology, interpersonal, and relational models of the transference/countertransference matrix; and understand clinical applications of these models. 

Goal: Provide candidates with an understanding of the historical origins and development of the concepts of transference and countertransference from Freud to the relational turn and explore their use in clinical work.

Dreams I

This is the first of two courses examining the critical role of dreams in psychoanalysis and the development of psychoanalytic dream theory. This course focuses on the period from Freud to the relational turn, exploring the origins of dream theory, starting with Freud and Jung. The course will then turn to different theoretical conceptualizations of dreams that emerge subsequently. 

Goal: Help candidates develop a historical framework for the use of dreams in clinical work; gain a psychoanalytic vocabulary for dreams; and begin to develop a facility for working clinically with patients’ dreams. 

WINTER

Freud II (1920–1938) 

This is the second of a two-course sequence on the work of Sigmund Freud, focusing on the major writings from 1920–1938. The course will explore the evolution of his thinking on such concepts as transference, narcissism, mourning, female sexuality, the drives, and psychic structure, with attention to the differences between his first model of mind, the topographic, and the second, the structural. 

Goal: Allow candidates to gain an understanding of Freud’s later psychoanalytic theory and connect key concepts with clinical work.

Transference/Countertransference II

This is the second of a two-course sequence looking at the development of the concepts and clinical uses of transference/countertransference. Turning to contemporary theoretical perspectives on transference and countertransference, this course considers how to become aware of and make sense of unconscious relational dynamics as they occur within the analytic dyad. Relevant clinical issues of sexual, cultural, and racial diversity will also be explored.

Goal: Offer candidates the opportunity to explore contemporary theoretical perspectives on transference/countertransference and apply them to their clinical work. 

Development II

This course focuses on the evolving understanding of early development and the shift to a two-person perspective. Following a brief survey of key pioneers of relational psychoanalysis, the course turns to how attachment theory, intersubjectivity and the relational perspective inform clinical work. The course also examines psychoanalytic conceptualizations of middle childhood and adolescence, from the Oedipus complex to later developments in object relations, ego psychology, Kleinian, and relational theory. The course concludes with an examination of adolescence, turning to a neuropsychoanalytic understanding of adolescence as a time when infant development is reorganized. 

Goal: Provide candidates with an understanding of different theoretical perspectives on human development in infancy, middle childhood, and adolescence. 

SPRING

Ego Psychology (6 weeks)

This course explores the origins and development of ego psychology, with particular attention to the aspects of ego psychology most relevant to the analytic process—expanding the capacities of the ego, understanding ego assessment, and working with defenses. Although rooted in id psychology and often attributed to Freud, ego psychology was developed by followers of Freud such as Anna Freud and Heinz Hartmann as a significant evolution of psychoanalytic theory because it emphasized examining aspects of the patient that were observable, creating a general psychology capable of broad explanatory value. Concepts such as Erikson’s stage theory and Mahler’s separation/individuation will be considered.

Goal: Introduce candidates to the history and key concepts of ego psychology, particularly those related to assessment of ego capacity. 

Contemporary Freud (6 weeks)

This course explores the origins, evolution, and breadth of contemporary Freudian psychoanalysis. Offering a diversity of viewpoints regarded as Freudian, the course demonstrates the way current Freudian writers extend traditional Freudian theoretical and technical principles while integrating core concepts from object relations, self psychology, and ego psychology. Topics to be considered include ego and object relationships, transference and countertransference, and enactment as well as their clinical application. 

Goal: Offer candidates an overview of contemporary Freudian thinking, including connections with other theoretical perspectives, and explore its application to clinical work. 

Interpersonal Theory I

This is the first of a two-course sequence in interpersonal psychoanalysis and focuses on the development and evolution of interpersonal perspectives. Readings include contributions from many of the pioneers of interpersonal psychoanalysis: Sandor Ferenczi, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Erich Fromm, and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. Key concepts of interpersonal psychoanalysis such as participant observation, dissociation, and selective inattention will be explored and related to candidates’ clinical work. 

Goal: Foster awareness and appreciation of the clinical and theoretical foundations of an

interpersonal psychoanalytic approach and to facilitate critical engagement with its traditions.

Object Relations I

This is the first of a two-course sequence in object relations and explores the origins and development of object relations theory of the British Independent or Middle School. Readings include contributions from Freud, Klein, Fairbairn, Guntrip, Balint, Winnicott, and Bion, with particular attention to how each theorist conceptualizes the mind, psychopathology, and the work of psychoanalysis. Points of connection and difference between these perspectives will be considered, as well as their application to clinical work.

Goal: Allow candidates to develop an understanding of early object relations that includes its historical context and its relevance to their clinical work.  

All courses are 12 weeks unless otherwise noted.

FALL

Interpersonal Theory II

This course builds on candidates’ previous study of the foundations of interpersonal psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical and clinical contributions of second and third generation writers who expanded the contributions of Sullivan, Ferenczi, Fromm, Fromm-Reichmann, and Thompson, the pioneers of interpersonal psychoanalysis. In addition to examining more traditional interpersonal ideas of participant-observation and detailed inquiry, the course focuses on major tenets of the interpersonal tradition and their clinical implications, particularly that of the democratic nature of the patient-therapist relationship and the ideas of (inter)action, (dis)association, and (in)attention. 

Goal: Explore how second and third generation interpersonalists engage with and expand on the foundational works of interpersonal psychoanalysis while connecting theoretical concepts to the candidates’ clinical work. 

Object Relations II

This is the second in a two-course sequence in object relations and examines the growth and evolution of object relations theory, examining contemporary writers’ engagement with Klein, Bion, Fairbairn, Winnicott, and other foundational object relations theorists. Concepts such as holding, subjectivity, countertransference, and masochism will be considered as well as the application of contemporary object relations perspectives to candidates’ clinical work.

Goal: Prepare candidates to identify, use, and apply contemporary object relations theories, including in clinical situations.

Relational Theory I

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of relational psychoanalysis as it emerged in the past 40 years, providing a historical framework to contextualize its development as well as an examination of key concepts such as enactment, intersubjectivity, mutuality, self-disclosure, dissociation, the analyst’s use of self, and therapeutic action. Candidates will read the works of first-generation relational theorists, including Mitchell, Aron, and Harris. 

Goal: Introduce candidates to key thinkers and concepts of relational psychoanalysis and enable them to use relational perspectives in their clinical work. 

WINTER

Dreams II

This course will provide an overview of contemporary thought on working with dreams. Candidates will become familiar with a plurality of approaches and gain facility in working clinically with dreams. Topics to be discussed include the social dimension of dreams, the use of self-states, embodiment, trauma, immigration, and the analyst’s dreams. 

Goal: Help candidates gain facility in using dreams to advance their clinical work.

Writing (6 weeks)

This course will explore psychoanalytic writing: how to read it, how to write it, and most of all, what can be learned from it. Candidates will be able to use this course to generate ideas and approaches for their final project. 

Goal: Allow candidates to think critically about psychoanalytic writing and prepare them to start their final projects. 

Couples (6 weeks)

This course is an introduction to contemporary couples therapy thought and practice. Candidates will have the opportunity to review a variety of perspectives and approaches, with each class focusing on a particular perspective and considering its application to clinical work. Readings include Gottman, Real, Tatkin, Perel, and Goldner.

Goal: Prepare candidates to work clinically with couples.

Relational II

This course elaborates on candidates’ previous study of the first generation of relational theorists by considering how their influence is reflected and reimagined in the work of contemporary writers. Texts will include the theoretical and clinical contributions of second-generation and contemporary relationalists, such as considerations of broader cultural and social contexts. Readings may also include texts from other theoretical perspectives in conversation with relational concepts. Themes explored include theoretical plurality within relational psychoanalysis; the relational tradition in the context of global trends in psychoanalysis; an emphasis on intersectionality and the social-political context; trauma; and nonrelationality and the intrapsychic. 

Goal: Deepen candidates’ understanding of the theory and practice of relational psychoanalysis and allow them to use key relational concepts in their clinical work. 

SPRING

Psychoanalysis and the Social

This course is an advanced-level seminar in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the relationships among desire, power, the social, and the psychoanalytic. Readings focus on recent contributions to the field in these areas. Topics to be considered include mourning, sexuality, and the family, with particular attention to psychoanalysis and the social. 

Goal: Provide candidates with a critical lens through which to understand contemporary critiques of psychoanalysis while expanding the focus of psychoanalysis from the individual and dyad to the social surround. 

Affect Regulation

This course explores regulation theory’s approach to mind as a subsystem of the organism (Brain-Mind-Body). Affect and affect regulation will be defined and explored. Self-states will be understood as states of bodymind that can be either regulated and integrated or dysregulated and dissociated. Candidates will gain fluency with using regulation theory in their clinical work.

Goal: Introduce candidates to regulation theory and enable them to make use of it clinically.

Self Psychology I

This course focuses on the historical, theoretical, and clinical aspects of self psychology as formulated by Kohut and his contemporaries. Evolving concepts of empathy and modes of empathic listening, the selfobject and selfobject transferences, the curative factors in treatment of rupture and repair, optimal and facilitative responsiveness, ongoing self object and conflictual dimensions of the transference and leading/trailing edge material will be explored. The course will also offer a re-evaluation of analytic concepts such as countertransference, resistance, the drives, narcissism and the self as the central agency of the mind. 

Goal: Introduce candidates to the foundational ideas and history of self psychology, including its engagement with other theoretical models of psychoanalysis, and enable their application of key concepts of self psychology to their clinical work.

FOURTH YEAR

All courses are 12 weeks unless otherwise noted.

FALL

Psychotherapy Integration and Therapeutic Action

Psychoanalysis has been enriched by insights from neuroscience and cognitive science, developmental and attachment research and theory, and trauma treatment. This course considers how the benefits of such integration accrue not only in the realm of theory, but also when applied to clinical practice. The tradition of “psychotherapy integration” will be reviewed, including the basic rationales and methods of body interventions in the practices of somatic experiencing (SE) and sensorimotor psychotherapy (SP); cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT); dialectical behavior therapy (DBT); and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). These are considered in relation to psychoanalysis and therapeutic action, with a focus on the candidates’ clinical work. 

Goal: Enable candidates to gain an understanding of several forms of psychotherapy integration, their relationship to psychoanalysis, and their utility in clinical work. 

Trauma & Dissociation

This course explores the complex interface of psychoanalysis, trauma and dissociation, surveying the historical psychoanalytic disavowal of trauma and dissociation while also presenting more current relational thinking on working with trauma and dissociation from a multi-dimensional framework. Readings will integrate relational theory with other theoretical orientations including attachment theory, neurobiology of attachment systems and mind-body interventions. Special attention will be given to assessment and technique, including increasing safety, containing and building trust, with an emphasis on analyst self-care, as well as working with enactments to increase awareness of as-yet unformulated experiences and disavowed self-states of patient and analyst alike. Classes will explore the impact of transgenerational transmission of trauma as well as the collective and often chronic trauma that manifests from systems of oppression within the larger socio-political context.  

Goal: Equip candidates with a comprehensive understanding of historical and contemporary traumatology for use in their clinical work. 

Self Psychology II

This course is a companion course to Self Psychology I, elaborating on self psychology’s key concepts with discussions of clinical application and exploration of its evolution and relationship with other theoretical perspectives. The course will help advanced candidates establish a more nuanced knowledge of self psychology, its theoretical offerings to the field, and its position as a theory of practice in psychoanalysis. 

Goal: Deepen candidates’ understanding of self psychology, including connections with other psychoanalytic theories, and advance their ability to apply key self psychological concepts in clinical work. 

WINTER

Gender & Sexuality

This course will focus on a comparison of classical and contemporary writings on gender and sexuality, emphasizing the clinical use of multiple psychoanalytic perspectives. Readings will cover the field from Freud and his followers/critics to contemporary relational thinkers such as Harris, Benjamin, Stein, Corbett, Davis, Aron and others. Candidates will have a chance to familiarize themselves with debates about the Oedipus complex, masculinity and femininity, penis envy, domination, female sexuality, perversion and their relevant clinical applications. 

Goal: Allow candidates to gain a facility with different theories of gender and sexuality and apply them to their clinical work.

Advanced Therapeutic Action

This class focuses on solidifying a preliminary understanding of the modes of therapeutic action most closely associated with contemporary psychoanalysis since the relational turn. The curriculum will survey the theoretical underpinnings of those orientations most prevalent in the training offered at NIP, each of which fall broadly under the relational umbrella: object relations, interpersonal theory, self psychology, and relational. Exegetical readings, articles by seminal theorists, and contemporary writings from within each orientation will be provided to delineate the theoretical and practical throughlines pursued by each of these schools of thought. 

Goal: Prepare candidates for independent clinical work by refining their understanding of different theoretical perspectives on therapeutic action and applying it to their clinical work. 

Intersubjectivity

This course will focus on the origins and development of psychoanalytic theories of intersubjectivity: intersubjectivity as a field or systems theory, forms of intersubjective relatedness, and the intersubjective view of thirdness. Intersubjectivity will be considered as a dynamic field or system co-created by the mutually reciprocal influence of both patient and analyst in the treatment setting. The course will include a focus on the concepts of conjunctive and disjunctive subjectivities in the analytic interaction and its clinical utility through clinical vignettes. The course will explore expanded and differing conceptualizations of mutual regulation, mutual recognition, and mutual influence and its impact as they are understood within the developmental model of intersubjective relatedness and the emergence of the analytic third. Theoretical and clinical aspects will be considered through the writings of theorists such as Aron, Baranger, M. and Baranger, W., Benjamin, Ehrenberg, Ferro, Mitchell, Ogden, Orange, and Stolorow et al.

Goal: Introduce candidates to foundational intersubjective theorists and concepts and prepare them to make use of intersubjectivity in a clinical context.

SPRING

Contemporary Psychoanalysis: COVID, Climate, and Other Crises

The aim of the course is to consider a variety of important and galvanizing current topics concerning contemporary relational psychoanalysts, including relational interpersonalists, relational self psychologists, the American Relational authors, intersubjectivists, relational object relationists, and neo-Kleinians. Topics such as the COVID pandemic, climate change, structural racism, and other crises will be considered both theoretically and clinically. 

Goal: Allow candidates to use psychoanalytic theories to make sense of the current landscape and its effects on both patient and analyst, with the goal of facilitating their clinical work.  

Master Class

The Master Class in Supervision provides graduating candidates an opportunity to work with visiting psychoanalytic clinicians—contributors to the field who are well-known theorists and teachers. The course affords senior candidates with an opportunity to experience a variety of supervisory styles and clinical approaches, and facilitates a greater understanding of the connection between theory and practice. Candidates will read and discuss papers by guest speakers, for an engaged focus on their work and ideas. Following the class in which their papers are discussed, each guest analyst will conduct a live supervision with case material presented by a candidate. 

Goal: Give candidates access to a range of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives and allow them to hone their skills in diagnosis, case formulation, and clinical intervention by presenting cases for supervision.

Endings

This course focuses both didactically and experientially on the working through of issues associated with the concept of termination. The class will function as a group experience, working with candidates’ feelings about leaving NIP and the coming to an end of their analytic training as a lived model for studying the termination process in psychotherapy. The relationship between termination in therapy and other separations and endings, including leaving the institute and the termination of the class will be explored. Readings will present historical as well as contemporary theory on the termination process in psychoanalysis; however, the thrust of this class is experiential.

Goal: Allow candidates to gain an understanding of the termination process in psychoanalysis and apply it clinically and personally.

Electives

In both the fourth year, each class has the opportunity to select one elective course.
For this elective, the class gets to select both the topic of the course and the instructor for the course.
The elective incorporates integrating psychoanalysis with other modalities.

2020.2021 Elective

Character Disorders & Treatment
Instructor: Luc Oliver Charlap, PhD

Other Elective Options

Recent electives have also included:

• Jung with instructor Margaret Klenck, LPA

• Shame with instructor Susan Obrecht, LCSW

• Neo-Kleinians with instructor Neil Skolnick, PhD

• Dissociation with instructor Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD, ABPP

• Couples Therapy – this course has been selected multiple years

• Regulation Theory: Integrating Psychoanalysis, Attachment & Neuroscience with instructor Dan Hill, PhD

• Integrating Psychoanalytic Techniques with Other Modalities – this course has been selected multiple years, and instructors have included Sandra Shapiro, PhD; Fran LaBarre, PhD; and Graham Bass, MA, APRN, LP

• Treating the Difficult Patient with instructor Marc Sholes, LCSW

• Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory

Other elective possibilities include:

• Contemporary Kleinian Psychoanalysis

• Ferenczi

• Trauma Treatment

• Fatherhood

• Group Therapy

• Eating Disorders/Addictions

• Sociocultural Influences on Psychoanalysis

• Freud's Case Histories

• Erotic Transference/Countertransference

• Mind/Body Integration

• Other topics selected by your class