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The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS




Adult Psychoanalysis Program/NY

The NYFS Psychoanalytic Training Institute conceives of the training in psychoanalysis as comprising three components: course instruction, personal analysis, and control analysis.


Course Instruction

An Overview of Our New Curriculum

The NYFS Psychoanalytic Training Institute has developed a new curriculum for the Adult Psychoanalysis programs. Informed by post-Freudian developments and theoretical perspectives, as well as current research on infant development and attachment, it is a Modern Freudian Curriculum that places Analytic Listening at the center of the learning process. Seasoned clinician-instructors will present detailed clinical material that includes how they as analysts thought and felt as they made choices as to what to address in the hour. Within this rich and complex context, candidates will learn to listen to a wide range of clinical material from multiple vantage points and at many levels.

These classes in analytic listening will be coordinated with courses on key concepts. These concepts will be integrated with, and arise out of, the clinical presentations, and will attend to the unfolding of object relations in the structure of the analytic situation. In this way, theory will have an experiential base that will be alive and meaningful to the students. Candidates will simultaneously study psychoanalytic theories of development attending to the initial dyad and moving to the triad (oedipal and other).

Candidates in the Adult Psychoanalysis program in New York register for two classes each semester. There are two semesters per year, each fifteen weeks long. In New York, all seminars meet on Monday evenings. Classes range in length from 1 hour & 15 minutes to 1 hour & 45 minutes, depending on the class.

Candidates in Track B of the Adult Psychoanalysis Program (pending approval by NYSED) attend the same classes as Candidates in Track A.  There is an additional year of course work to be taken after the fourth year, which involves a course on Ethics, a course on Psychoanalytic Research Methodology, and a two hour course in the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment. Details of the scope of practice of licensed psychoanalysts in New York State will be covered in the Ethics course.

Please see our Curriculum Grid for details:
NYFS_App_NY.pdf Curriculum Grid (PDF:60KB)

Personal Analysis

Each candidate is expected to begin a personal analysis (also called a Training Analysis) with a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society when they matriculate. Should an applicant already be in analysis with someone who is not a Training and Supervising Analyst with the New York Freudian Society and wish to continue in that analysis, discussion between the candidate, the Director of Admissions, Chair of the Progression Committee and the Institute Director would take place before acceptance into the program was finalized. For more details about the requirements for graduation please see our Candidate Guidelines.


Control Analysis

Candidates conduct their own analyses under supervision, as an essential and vital part of their analytic training. The candidate sees his/her own analysand four times a week and is supervised by a Training and Supervising Analyst once weekly. By the time a candidate is ready to graduate they will have seen at least two control cases, and have had the experience of at least two supervisors. For candidates at some geographical distance from their supervisor, supervision can be arranged on an every other week schedule. Yearly case summary reports are part of the clinical responsibility of the candidate and part of the learning experience of doing psychoanalysis. Every candidate has an opportunity to discuss the summaries each year with a member of the Progression committee and an independent case summary reader. A minimum of 200 hours of supervision between the two cases is required. For those candidates in Track B of the Adult Psychoanalysis Program, the requirements for the minimum number of hours of supervision are the same.

For more details about the requirements for graduation, and further details about Track B of the Adult Psychoanalysis Program, please see our Candidate Guidelines.


Psychotherapy

Licensed and insured candidates are encouraged to accept and treat one psychotherapy patient referred by the Clinical Services Division.


Admissions

The Training Institute's Adult Psychoanalysis Program welcomes applicants 25 years and older, with a Master's or higher degree in Social Work, Psychology, Medicine or Nursing, as well as those with Master's Degrees in other clinical disciplines, such as Creative Arts Therapy and Counseling. In addition, professionals with graduate degrees in fields that enrich psychoanalysis, such as education, philosophy, and sociology, are encouraged to apply. Applicants with previous psychoanalytic training at other IPA Institutes may also make an inquiry to the Admissions Committee with regard to the possibility of obtaining advanced status. The Committee will consider each such case in the light of the applicant's prior experience, and the comparability of the previous training, and the Institute's standards.

Graduates are eligible for membership in the New York Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Upon graduation, our members become part of a group of psychoanalysts working and learning not only locally but around the world.

For more information about admission to our Adult Psychoanalysis Program, please call Phyllis Springer, LCSW, at 212-772-8505.


Application Form

The program application, in PDF format, is available for download here:
NYFS_App_NY.pdf Application: Psychoanalysis Programs in NY (PDF:44KB)
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NYFS Training and Supervising Analysts

Phyllis Ackman, PhD
Abby Adams-Silvan, PhD
Thomas E. Allen, MD
Maurice Apprey, PhD
Bonnie Asnes, LCSW
Sheldon Bach, PhD
Robert R. Barry, PhD
Alan Bass, PhD
Harriet I. Basseches, PhD
Delia Battin, LCSW
Phyllis Beren, PhD
Anni Bergman, PhD
Maria V. Bergmann
Martin S. Bergmann
Harmon Biddle, MSW
Jerome S. Blackman, MD
Jane F. Buckwalter, LCSW
Robert F. Carr, DSW
Harold Chorny, PhD
Paul Cornyetz
Louise L. Crandall, PhD
Pasquale De Blasi, Jr., DSW
Diane Dowling, PhD
Patricia Doyle, PhD
Edward Eisenberg, LCSW
Carolyn S. Ellman, PhD
Paula L. Ellman, PhD
Susan S. Elmendorf, MSW
Vivian Eskin, PhD
R. Eleanor Esposito, PhD
Edwin Fancher, MA
Judith Felton, LCSW
Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW
Elsa First, MA
Emily M. Flint, MSW
Rita V. Frankiel, PhD
Elizabeth Fritsch, PhD
Helen K. Gediman, PhD
Marion Gedney, PhD
Nancy R. Goodman, PhD
Stanley Grand, PhD
Andrea Greenman, PhD
William M. Greenstadt, PhD
Nancy E. Griscom, MSW
Mark Grunes, PhD
Andrea Hadge, PhD
Jane S. Hall, MSW, BCD
Fonya Helm, PhD
Jill C. Herbert, PhD
Ellen R. Hirsch, LCSW
Marvin S. Hurvich, PhD
Daniel S. Jaffe, MD
Molly M. Jones-Quinn, PhD
Eva Kantor, PhD
Laura Kleinerman, MS
Ellen C. Klosson, PhD
Jo Lang, PhD
Ruth F. Lax, PhD
Edward S. Levin, PhD
Lois J. Levine, LCSW
Edwin Ira Levy, PhD
Marsha Levy-Warren, PhD
Eleanor F. Light, PhD
Susan F. Light, LCSW
Kristine Shays Lupi, LCSW
Kristina C. MacGaffin, MSW
Kerry L. Malawista, PhD
Marvin D. Markowitz, PhD
Joyce McDougall, DEd
James C. Miller, J.D., PhD
Stanley Moldawsky, PhD
Batya R. Monder, MSW
Martin L. Nass, PhD
Jack Novick, PhD
Kerry Kelly Novick
Marion M. Oliner, PhD
Katharine Oram, PhD
Edward S. Penzer, PhD
Miriam Pierce, LCSW
Fred Pine, PhD
Sandra Pine, PhD
Lilo Plaschkes, MSW
Frieda Plotkin, PhD
Lesley Post, LCSW
Hadassah Ramin, LCSW
Monica J. Rawn, LCSW
Moss L. Rawn, PhD
Daniel Raylesberg, PhD
Gail S. Reed, PhD
Katharine Rees, PhD
Rita Reiswig, MS
Arlene K. Richards, EdD
Shelley Rockwell, PhD
John Rosegrant, PhD
Phillida B. Rosnick, PhD
Robert Rovner, PhD
Crayton E. Rowe, Jr., MSW
Lynne S. Rubin, PhD
Ann Rudovsky, LCSW
Barbara H. Saidel, PhD
Marilyn Sande, MSW
Esther Savitz, LCSW
Shirley Herscovitch Schaye, PhD
Victor Schein, LCSW
Edith Schwartz, PhD
Susannah Falk Shopsin, MSW
Mark Silvan, PhD
Ellen Sinkman, LCSW
Phyllis L. Sloate, PhD
Donna Roth Smith, LCSW
Katherine Snelson, LCSW
Stephen P. Solow, PhD
Rogelio Sosnik, MD
Phyllis Springer, LCSW
Irving Steingart, PhD
Joyce Steingart, PhD
Barbara Stimmel, PhD
Lydia Stokes-Katzenbach,MSW
Elspeth Strang, MSW
Iris Sugarman, MSW
Toni C. Thompson, MSW
Carole Trevas, MSW
Gordon A. Tripp, MD
Joann K. Turo, MA
Saul Tuttman, PhD
Donald W. Whipple, PhD
Mary C. Wimer, MD
Nancy H. Wolf, MSW
Leon Wurmser, MD
Ilene Young, EdD



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