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.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Certificate Program
Students in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy certificate are required to have a personal psychoanalysis or intensive psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy, either current or completed.
Advanced Concepts of Theory & Technique
Required coursework provides a solid foundation in the theory and technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including exposure to the controversies, ferment, and growth which characterize contemporary psychoanalysis. The program offers a comparative examination of models dealing with drive, ego, self, object relations, and interpersonal relationships.
Supervised Clinical Work
In addition to the required coursework students must complete 150 hours of clinical supervision and submit 8 case reports.
Psychoanalysis Certificate Program
Each newly-admitted candidate for full clinical training will be required to undertake a personal psychoanalysis with a training analyst of the candidate’s own choosing but drawn from the certificate program's list. The training analysis should begin several months before seminars begin and should proceed on a basis of five or four sessions weekly. (See below for the list of Supervising and Training Analysts.)
Courses in Theory and Technique
Admission to courses and seminars is at the discretion of the Education Committee. After completion of the required curriculum, candidates are required to participate in either an advanced clinical seminar or another seminar of their own choice until graduation.
Advisor
Each candidate is assigned a member of the Education Committee as an advisor. The role of the advisor varies with each candidate. In the most general terms, the advisor seeks to foster the candidate’s development of his or her "psychoanalytic identity." This may include help regarding the integration of coursework and clinical work, the choice of supervisors, or any other matters where input from a mentor might be helpful. The advisor also serves as an avenue for feedback from the Education Committee to the candidate regarding his or her progress in training. Advisors may be changed upon request without prejudice.
Supervised Clinical Work
Early in the first year each candidate is to choose one of the supervising analysts to supervise psychotherapy cases and later to be the supervisor of the first analytic case. The supervisory fee varies and is negotiated between the candidate and supervisor. (See below for the list of Supervising and Training Analysts.)
Before the completion of analytic training candidates are required to conduct a minimum of three adult cases under supervision. Candidates are expected to analyze one low-fee case, the analytic fee to be determined by the candidate and supervisor with consideration of the patient’s ability to pay. Both sexes should be represented in the caseload. Patients must be seen a minimum of four times weekly. The candidate must have three different supervising analysts. It is expected that, in each case, supervision will begin at or before the start of the analysis. Supervision shall be conducted at the rate of one hour per week throughout most of the analysis. At least one case must be carried through to a satisfactory termination, with supervision continuing throughout the terminal phase. Both adult- and child-program candidates may analyze a child or adolescent as one of the three cases required for graduation. A minimum of 200 total hours of supervision is required for graduation. Each of the three cases presented for graduation must have a minimum of 50 hours of supervision.
Candidates are required to provide six-monthly summaries (in June and December) on every analytic case until graduation. This requirement applies to all incomplete, interrupted and extra cases, in addition to the three required qualifying cases. The six-monthly summaries are to be discussed with the case supervisors and then submitted to the Administrator's office. Candidates submit semi-annual reports to the Administrator giving the frequency and number of hours of analysis for each case, with a notation of any changes in frequency. Candidates are responsible for advising the Administrator in writing regarding the beginning and ending dates for all cases in analysis.
Students may not represent themselves as psychoanalysts until they have been authorized to begin analysis under accredited supervision, and then only with the case(s) which they are analyzing under supervision. Candidates may not advertise themselves as analysts before graduation.
Training and Supervising Analysts - Faculty authorized to conduct personal analyses and supervise analytic control cases for students in the psychoanalysis certificate program.