“The [one] who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in a moment of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing.. that is the [one] who cares.”

— Henri Nouwen

Training

The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute offers two dynamic training opportunities for clinicians interested in expanding and deepening their professional skills and developing their identity as psychoanalytically informed clinicians. 

Psychoanalytic Training

The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute provides Psychoanalytic Training for qualified therapists who wish to graduate as Psychoanalysts and conduct psychoanalysis with patients. 

The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society sponsors and supports the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, which is a therapy training program for therapists wishing to increase their understanding and application of this in-depth approach to psychotherapy.

Building on Freud's early discoveries, psychoanalytic theory continues to evolve as an intellectually stimulating and clinically powerful instrument for helping people change. New knowledge from infant observation and research, recent studies in the mind-brain relationship, as well as current psychoanalytic developments enhance the rich curriculum offered by the Institute.

Several main currents within psychoanalysis – the Freudian, Object Relational and Kleinian, Self Psychological, and Relational perspectives – are presented in both programs to guide the psychoanalytically informed clinician in helping patients disentangle from painful patterns of living to pursue their own transformative potential to live loving, productive and vital lives.