Postgraduate Training in Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis
Providing continuing education and advanced post-graduate training for mental health professionals is a primary role of the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. We offer post-graduate training in psychoanalysis for both clinical and academic fields, as well as post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy for clinical fields.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (PPT)
- Provides a rich understanding of the psychoanalytic perspective, which can inform all clinical work – from supportive to insight-oriented
- Approximately 200 to 225 hours of coursework
- Supervision of two cases that are being seen twice a week
- Personal treatment in psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis Training (PsaT)
- Prepares students to obtain a certificate in psychoanalysis
- Approximately 500 hours of coursework
- Supervision of three analytic cases
- Personal analysis with a training analyst
- Training offered in both adult and child/adolescent psychoanalysis, as well as a combined curriculum
Clinical Training
Our clinical programs are designed to enrich and strengthen each student’s development as a clinician and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and/or psychoanalyst. This is best achieved when clinicians have a solid foundation in psychoanalytic theory and technique, receive close clinical supervision, and can develop a high degree of self-awareness that deepens their sensitivity to the client-therapist relationship. Clinical training is therefore a comprehensive tri-partite training experience that includes:
- Coursework in theory and technique
- Supervised clinical work
- Personal treatment
Academic Training
Psychoanalytic training is also invaluable to individuals in non-clinical, academic fields who wish to incorporate the theory into their work. Individuals from various educational and professional backgrounds are eligible to apply for training as a matriculated academic student in the psychoanalysis training program. Non-clinical academic students undertake personal psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy and participate in the required curriculum.
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