Training Program: Curriculum

Learn More About the Psychotherapy Course Structure

To earn a certificate, you must complete all of the course requirements for years one and two. You also need to fulfill 60 hours of individual case consultation. 

First-year required courses

  • The Role of the Unconscious in the Therapeutic Setting
  • Working in the Therapeutic Setting: The First Session and What Happens Next
  • Free Association and the Analytic Attitude
  • Analysis of Defense• Internalized Relationships
  • Development (Infancy, Oedipal Phase, Latency)

Second-year required courses

  • Self Psychology and Relational Theories
  • Treating the Difficult Patient• Transference and Countertransference
  • Helping Patients to Talk and Learning How to Listen
  • Working with Dreams