First Year: 

Fall Semester

  • Introduction to the Writings of Sigmund Freud, Part 1
  • Introduction to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (Psychopathology)
  • Case Presentation:  Beginning of Treatment – Clinical Considerations

Spring Semester

  • Introduction to the Writings of Sigmund Freud, Part II
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Early Development
  • Case Presentation: Beginning of Treatment-Clinical Considerations

After the first year of training, the Analyst-In-Training will have received an overall conceptual framework of psychoanalytic theory as reflected in the writings of Freud, early normal and pathological human development, and an introduction to the analytic clinical and ethical considerations of beginning treatment.

Second Year:  

Fall Semester

  • Transference, Resistance and Countertransference, Part I
  • Developmental Theory: Latency Through Adolescence
  • Case Presentation: Initial Resistances

Spring Semester

  • Transference, Resistance and Countertransference, Part II
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Dreams, Part I
  • Case Presentation: Resistance and Working Alliance

After the second year of training, the Candidate will be aided in understanding of patient transference, analyst countertransference, and patient resistances. Developing a therapeutic alliance with patients as well as the therapeutic frame will be discussed. Interpretation of dreams will be discussed.

Third Year:

Fall Semester

  • Character Analysis
  • Narcissism and Narcissistic Disorders
  • Case Presentation: Clinical Issues

Spring Semester

  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Depression
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of the Perversions 
  • Case Presentation: Comparative Orientations

After the third year of training, the analyst-in-training will be exposed to the contributions of psychoanalytic theory in perversion, narcissism, impulse disorders, and depression. Clinical issues will be discussed.

Fourth Year:

Fall Semester

  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Borderline States
  • Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology
  • Case presentation: Working Through

Spring Semester

  • Theory of Object Relations
  • Advanced Dream Seminar
  • Case Presentation: Termination

Fifth Year:

Fall Semester

  • Contemporary Concepts in Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalytic Theory of Self Psychology
  • Case Presentation: Induced Countertransference

Spring Semester

  • Theory of Psychoanalytic Techniques
  • Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis
  • Case Presentation: Fifth Year