The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

 

educational programs

 

 

 

The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia provides the following high quality education and training programs for mental health professionals and for select professionals from other fields whose work would benefit from an understanding of psychoanalysis:

 

·         Psychoanalytic Institute: Adult Curriculum

The Psychoanalytic Institute provides a contemporary curriculum which offers a complete understanding of psychoanalytic theory encompassing modern classical and relational perspectives. It is approved by the Board of Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

                       

·         Psychoanalytic Institute: Child and Adolescent Curriculum

The Institute’s curriculum in Child and Adolescent analysis is also approved by the Board of Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

 

·         Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

The Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program offers a 2-year curriculum to clinicians with masters or doctoral degrees in their field. The curriculum focuses on the central roles of development, unconscious processes, and intrapsychic conflict in the formation of personality and  psychopathology, and on the psychotherapeutic process.

 

·         Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

The Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program offers a 2-year postgraduate program designed for child psychotherapists of diverse backgrounds and for other professionals who work with children and their parents and who wish to further their understanding of child development, the inner world of the child, and the technique of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents.

 

·         Fellowship Program

The Fellowship Program offers one- and two-year fellowships to both clinical and non-clinical applicants in order to provide an introductory or focused acquaintance with psychoanalysis for the enhancement of the Fellow’s professional work.

 

·         Continuing Education Programs

The Continuing Education Programs provide a variety of opportunities for mental health clinicians to maintain and improve their clinical awareness and skills.

 

 

 

 

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