Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been developed, practiced and taught by psychoanalysts from its beginnings. Students and practitioners learn to apply psychoanalytic concepts in a variety of clinical settings with a wide range of patients and clients.
More recently, because of the relative neglect of such training in universities and other training programs, psychoanalytic societies and institutes have developed formal instruction programs in the discipline of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
While individual programs differ in their specifics, typically they are based upon the core psychoanalytic tripartite training model of didactic seminars, clinical supervision and personal therapy. Programs are available not only in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy but also in child and/or child and adolescent psychotherapy.
For most mental health professionals, the graduate training experience does not fully prepare one to be a skilled, knowledgeable and confident therapist. While we continue to learn from our patients throughout our professional lives, we believe that advanced formal training is crucial to our efforts to provide the highest level of clinical competence.
The following programs are designed to enrich psychotherapeutic skills and to provide a background in psychodynamic principles and the theoretical basis of clinical work.
Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Atlanta Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.
Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (Houston)
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis & The Denver Psychoanalytic Society
Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society, Institute, and Foundation
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society
New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas
The Psychoanalytic Institute affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine
Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (SDPSI)
Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program (San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis)
Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Inc.
Child and/or Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
The Psychoanalytic Institute affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine
St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |