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Graduate Education

Many of APsaA's accredited training institutes and affiliate societies provide courses through their extension divisions.

Master of Science

The Anna Freud Centre Program at the Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine offers a Master of Science degree in Psychodynamic Developmental Neuroscience.

Masters in Social Work

The Smith College for Social Work has an MSW program that is psychoanalytically-friendly and accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

The following graduate schools offer psychoanalytic/psychodynamic-friendly MSW programs:

NYU Silver School of Social Work

Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work

Simmons School of Social Work

Ph.D. Program in Clinical Social Work

The Institute for Clinical Social Work is committed to the psychodynamic clinical social work tradition and has a number of analysts on the faculty of its Ph.D. program.

The Smith College for Social Work has an excellent psychodynamically-based clinical social work Ph.D. program.

Ph.D. Program in Psychoanalysis

The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles (an accredited training institute of APsaA) offers a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Psychoanalysis, as approved by the State of California Division of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Private Postsecondary Vocational Education.

Fellowship

The Austen Riggs Center offers a two-four year Fellowship in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy for psychiatrists and psychologists. The Center has a fully accredited PGY4 year and take residents for their 4th year after they have completed three years of residency elsewhere. Riggs pays for the Fellows' personal psychoanalysis for the first two years and the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute has its classes on the Riggs' grounds.

Graduate Programs in Psychology

The following graduate schools offer master and/or doctoral programs in psychology for those interested in good clinical as well as research training, particularly for someone who wants to get psychodynamic training; however none are exclusively psychodynamically oriented. In no way, do these listings imply any endorsement by APsaA. Recommended mentors are listed in parentheses.

Adelphi University (Joel Weinberger, Mark Hilsenroth)

Boston University (Heather Thompson-Brenner)

Catholic University

City University of New York (mostly clinical, but offers good research training in Psychiatry at Columbia as primary research experience)

Columbia University (mostly clinical, but can offers good research training in Psychiatry at Columbia)

Columbia University, Teachers College

Duke (Susan Roth)

Emory University (Drew Westen)

Fairleigh Dickinson University

The Fielding Graduate Institute

The George Washington University
The Psy.D. program is a psychoanalytic program headed by APsaA member Dorothy Holmes, Ph.D. who is a former Education Committee chair at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. The program was founded by Jim Miller, Ph.D. who is a training analyst at Baltimore Washington.

Howard University

Long Island University (Phil Wong)

Madonna University (Bob Cohen)

Michigan State University

The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles (an accredited training institute of APsaA) offers a Doctor of Psychology in Psychoanalysis.

New School for Social Research

Pacific Graduate School

Penn State (Ken Levy, Aaron Pincus)

Rochester University (Richard Ryan)

Rutgers University PsyD (clinical only)

State University of New York (SUNY) -Stony Brook (Dan Klein, Joanna Davila)

The University of Chicago Committee on Human Development

University College London- offers a Ph.D. in psychology from the psychoanalysis unit.

University of Denver (child) (Susan Harter)

University of Denver PsyD (clinical only)

University of Detroit Mercy

The University of Essex

University of Massachusetts- Boston

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

University of Michigan (Nmamdi Pole)

University of Minnesota (research only) (Bob Krueger)

University of Tennessee (Len Handler, Mike Nash)

University of Utah (Tim Smith, Lorna Benjamin)

University of Virginia Arts and Sciences (Eric Turkheimer)

University of Virginia Curry School of Education (Dewey Cornell)

The Wright Institute (clinical only)

Xavier University

 

Other psychoanalytically friendly schools