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 (Clinical Candidates Only)
150 Writing Course 

SECOND YEAR
Required Sessions: 90 General Program

210-A Psychoanalytic Theory: Mechanisms of Defense
and Problems of Adaptation

210-B Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

220 Technique of Psychoanalysis 

230 Human Development II 

241 Continuous Case (Clinical Candidates Only) 

250 Writing Cours

THIRD YEAR
Required Sessions: 90 General Program

310 Psychoanalytic Theory

320 Technique of Psychoanalysis

322 Theory and Technique: Dream Interpretation

330 Human Development: Adolescent Psychology 

341 Continuous Case (Clinical Candidates Only)

350 Writing Course 

FOURTH YEAR
Required Sessions: 70 General Program

410 Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory

420 Techniques of Psychoanalysis 
441 Continuous Case (Clinical Candidates Only)

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.