The NYSPP Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Training Program

CURRICULUM

All classes meet on Mondays of each week and start in the early evening in both Manhattan and Long Island locations. Time, place and instructor will be announced well in advance of classes.
The fall term starts the last Monday of September, and the spring term starts the first Monday of February.

FIRST YEAR - FALL SEMESTER

100    The Theory of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy I

This seminar explores Freud's seminal concepts of the origins and manifestations of neurosis, the psychosexual phases of development, the function of defenses, narcissism, and dream theory.

101    The Beginning Phase of Treatment

This seminar focuses on the origins and implications of psychoanalytic ego psychology for the development of a therapeutic focus during the early phase of treatment. Techniques for handling initial resistances are illustrated by case material from both students and instructor.

FIRST YEAR - SPRING SEMESTER

102    The Theory of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy II

This seminar examines Freud’s development of the structural theory as the basis for later ego psychology, and his reformulation of the theory of anxiety with its profound impact on psychoanalysis. It also continues the investigation of the theory of dreams started in the
previous semester.

103    Introduction To Ego Psychology

This seminar shows how developmental ego psychology of both normal and abnormal states is clarified by the contributions of Anna Freud, Hartmann, Kris, Lowenstein, Jacobson, Mahler, Brenner, Spitz and others.

SECOND YEAR - FALL SEMESTER

200    The Clinical Theory of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

This course focuses on how conflict, compromise formation and object relations impact on psychic structure and how interventions and interpretations in psychotherapy lead to healthy changes in patients.

201    Clinical Case Seminar

Students and instructor present clinical case material relevant to the theoretical issues under consideration in Seminar 200.

SECOND YEAR - SPRING SEMESTER

202    Diagnosis From A Developmental Point of View

Anna Freud's diagnostic profile and its elaboration by G. & R. Blanck as a guide to treatment planning, provides a framework for this course. There is a detailed consideration of such basic diagnostic constellations as hysteria, obsessional neurosis and depression.

203    Clinical Case Seminar in Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

Students present case material relevant to Seminar 202.

THIRD YEAR - FALL SEMESTER

301    The Theory of Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The theories of transference and resistance as applied to the technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy are taught. The contribution of G. & R. Blanck to technique is considered in depth.

302    Clinical Case Seminar

Students present case material relevant to treating the more     structured patient.

THIRD YEAR SPRING SEMESTER

303    Techniques in The Less Structured Patient

This seminar focuses on the theory and technique of treating the more severe pathologies including the narcissistic disorders. The contributions of G. & R. Blanck, Kernberg, Kohut, A. Reich, Shengold, E. Jacobson, J. & K. Novick to technique are discussed.

304    Clinical Case Seminar

Students present case material relevant to treating the more disturbed patient.

400     Case Presentation Seminar

The seminar is offered to those third year students who wish to formally prepare for presentation of cases. This course is optional and is given in the spring semester of the third year, time and place to be announced.  No fee.

Psychoanalytic Training
FOURTH YEAR

401   Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Technique

Focus is on the opening phase of treatment and free association, the therapeutic alliance and transference.

402   Unconscious Fantasy in Psychoanalytic Treatment

This course reviews the central role of fantasy, conscious and unconscious, in psychoanalytic treatment.

403   The Use of Dreams in Psychoanalysis

The focus is on the clinical use of dreams throughout the analytic process.

404  Psychoanalytic Technique II The Middle Phase

This course demonstrates the use of working through, the repetition compulsion, negative therapeutic reaction, resistance and transference.

FIFTH YEAR

501   Psychoanalytic Technique III

The focus is on the goals of psychoanalysis and the proper termination of psychoanalytic treatment.

502   Psychopathology I

This course reviews psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of hysteria, obsessive compulsive neurosis, character disorder, and neurotic depression.

503  Psychopathology II

This course reviews the technique of analytic treatment of narcissistic pathology, the perversions and borderline conditions.

504   Continuous Case Presentation

This seminar will provide candidates an opportunity to follow one case week by week and to discuss and review all aspects of psychoanalytic technique as applied to that case.

Optional case and reading seminars are offered on a variety of psychoanalytic issues, open to all candidates who have completed all required seminars in the Psychoanalytic Program. In addition to regular NYSPP faculty, guest instructors have included Irene Cairo Chiarandini, Steven Ellman, Marvin Hurvich, Janice Lieberman, Gail Reed and Arlene Kramer Richards.