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Psychoanalytic Education Program
Curriculum

First Year

Clinical Process—Analyzability (fall)
Clinical Process—Opening Phase (winter & spring)
Child Development—Infancy/Toddler, Early Childhood, Latency
Freud Theory - I
Freud Theory - I—Discussion Session
Case Conference (2 sessions each quarter)
Ethics and Psychoanalysis (fall)
Freud’s Case Histories (spring)
Child and Adolescent Case Conference*  **
Case Studies in Child & Adolescent Analysis


Second Year

Clinical Process—Dreams
Psychoanalytic Theory – II (from Freud to Ego Psychology)
Case Conference
Pre-, Early and Middle Adolescence (fall)
Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood (winter)
Middle and Older Adulthood (spring)
Child & Adolescent Case Conference*  **
Writing of Clinical Process (winter)
Research Methods - I (spring)
Fundamental Issues of Technique
Pivotal Cases
Principles of Child and Adolescent Analysis


Third Year

Research Methods II (spring)
Object Relations
Continuous Case Conference
Models and Technique
Child and Adolescent Case Conference*  **


Fourth Year

Mind and Brain
Self Psychology
Termination Seminar (two sessions each quarter)
Research Methods - III (fall)
Hierarchical Models (winter and spring)
Continuous Case Seminar
Child and Adolescent Case Conference*  **


Fifth Year

Follow-up Research
Advanced Object Relations (fall)
Advanced Self Psychology (winter)
Critical Examination of Psychoanalytic Theory (spring)
Relational Models (spring)
Child and Adolescent Case Conference*  **


*    
Required for all Child & Adolescent candidates

**   Required for all candidates with a child in analysis

Unless otherwise noted, all classes are taught Fall, Winter & Spring



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