TRADITIONAL COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The following is an overview of required courses and sessions per year, and each session is usually 1 ½ hours long. Courses are typically offered one evening a week, and every other Saturday from 8:30-1:30 approximately.
FIRST YEAR
Required Sessions: 70 - 90 General Program
110 Psychoanalytic Theory: Core Concepts
120 Theory of Techniques: Psychoanalysis and Analyzability
130 Psychoanalytic Theory of Human Development
141 Continuous Case 20
(With permission from the Education Committee)
WR Writing Course
SECOND YEAR
Required Sessions: 90 General Program
210 Psychoanalytic Theory: Mechanisms of Defense
and Problems of Adaptation
220 Technique of Psychoanalysis
230 Human Development II
241 Continuous Case (includes 241C)
WR Writing Course
THIRD YEAR
Required Sessions: 90 General Program
310 Psychoanalytic Theory
320 Clinical Conference 20
330 Human Development: Adolescent Psychology
341 Continuous Case
WR Writing Course
FOURTH YEAR
Required Sessions: 70 General Program
410 Theory of Psychoanalysis
420 Techniques of Psychoanalysis
441 Continuous Case
450 Writing Course
Participation in Electives and programs as advised by faculty.
If additional years are needed based on personal circumstance, the course structure is likely to be similar to year 4.