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 Studies

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

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