Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year - Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training - is a one-year 25-week course for licensed mental health professionals encompassing didactic material and clinical case discussions. The aim is to develop the understanding and clinical skills needed to practice intensive psychotherapy, further knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and technique, and offer a bridge to psychoanalytic training.
Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year - Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training - is a one-year 25-week course for licensed mental health professionals encompassing didactic material and clinical case discussions. The aim is to develop the understanding and clinical skills needed to practice intensive psychotherapy, further knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and technique, and offer a bridge to psychoanalytic training.
The course will help students deepen treatment to at least twice weekly, allowing an immersive experience highlighting the transference and countertransference elements in psychoanalytic therapy.
Designed for graduates of psychodynamic psychotherapy and analytic fellowship programs, *licensed mental health clinicians with at least two years of psychodynamic therapy experience, and candidates admitted to the PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program who need an additional preparatory year.
*or in advanced clinical training with psychotherapy supervision
Duration: 33 Hours total - 25 Classes
Time Frame: Saturdays, 11:30AM - 12:50PM
Start Date: TBD, Fall 2024
Location and Learning Format: The course is a mix of ten in person classes, and fifteen virtual classes. The class schedule and designation of class dates as either in person or virtual will be announced prior to course start date. In person classes will take place at 1 Park Avenue.
Curriculum: The syllabus includes readings on deepening treatment and distinguishing between supportive and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Clinical case presentations focus on resistance, transference and countertransference in intensive psychotherapy. Classes will address contemporary issues in psychoanalysis relevant to diverse patients seen in community settings and in private practice.
Early Admissions Process: A Pathway to Pany’s Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program:
Candidates enrolled in the program are welcome to apply for early admission to the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program. Acceptance into the psychoanalytic program would afford the candidate a case development supervisor and faculty advisor, in line with other psychoanalytic candidates.
Joel Gold MD, PANY Faculty
Jacqueline Schachter, PhD, PANY Faculty
Michael Sobel MD, PANY Faculty
Guillermo Valdes MD, PANY Faculty
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 29 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Psychoanalytic Association New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Health is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.
Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.
Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.
Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.
Psychoanalytic Association of New York
NYU Department of Psychiatry
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: 646-754-4870
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