Full Clinical Candidates

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Students who are accepted into the clinical certificate programs may pursue a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and/or psychoanalysis. Each program will have different clinical and academic requirements, but students in both programs will take many of their basic courses together. This arrangement allows students to get started in an integrated clinical training program before deciding whether to specialize in clinical psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, or both.

Students in both certificate programs undertake supervised clinical work. Students in the pschoanalyis certificate program must participate in a training analysis concurrent with their supervised clinical work. Students in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy certificate are required to have a personal psychoanalysis or intensive psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy, either current or completed.

Eligibility:

Eligible applicants for full clinical training are graduates from an accredited school of medicine or osteopathy, psychology or other doctoral level mental health program, or a masters level program in social work or other mental health profession in which a masters is the customary terminal clinical degree.

Eligible applicants must be State licensed and carry their own liability insurance.

Physicians are expected to have completed at least one year of a full-time psychiatric residency before matriculation and to have graduated from a psychiatric residency before graduation from the certificate program.

Applicants with non-medical doctoral degrees in a mental health field are expected to have obtained appropriate post-graduate clinical experience before matriculation. Applicants with a Masters in Social Work or comparable mental health degree are required to have obtained considerable further clinical experience beyond that required for their degree.

Any applicant for full clinical training who has not had a substantial background in psychotherapy or whose education and experience is assessed to be insufficient to undertake the responsibilities of full clinical training will be required to complete additional didactic and/or clinical work prior to or concurrent with matriculation.

If the psychoanalysis certificate program wishes to accept a candidate who does not meet the above eligibility requirements, the program may request a waiver of the usual eligibility standards from the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association in order for that candidate to be eligible for training.