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Curriculum

Classes meet from 6:30-9:30 PM on Monday evenings for 30 weeks per academic year over a two-academic year period. These classes are designed as seminars so that participants in the program will acquaint themselves through assigned readings with important writings in personality development, psychopathology and therapeutic technique and then take part in exploring these ideas more fully in class. The focus, throughout the curriculum, is on clinical practice. It is essential, for full participation in the program, that participants be willing to use examples from their own clinical work and that they hold in strict confidentiality discussions of other’s clinical examples.

Participants will also be responsible for securing readings. Occasionally, this may involve purchasing a book. Most often, the readings will be made available through our website. We will help participants find the most economical way to subscribe to the PEPweb database of psychoanalytic publications. Ask the Co-ordinator of Admissions or one of the Co-directors about securing readings for the program.

The academic program consists of courses in

Personality Development Through the Life Cycle
Psychodynamic Concepts & Theories of Therapy
Clinical technique courses on phases of the process ranging from evaluation and treatment planning to termination (and including crisis and medication issues)
Psychopathology

Personality Development

Infancy and the early years, including recent developments in infant research
Latency and Adolescence
Adulthood

Psychodynamic Concepts and Theories

Exploration of psychodynamic concepts
Theory and process of therapy, including contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives (e.g., ego psychology, object relations theory, self psychology, intersubjectivity, & relational theory) as applied to psychodynamic psychotherapy
Dreams

Clinical Technique

Core technique courses:
  1. Evaluation and treatment planning
  2. Opening phase
  3. Middle phase
  4. Termination
Management of crisis and medication issues
Full Class Case Conference courses involving class discussion of case material brought by a participant

Psychopathology

Personality disorders and character problems
Narcissistic issues
Borderline conditions
Trauma and dissociative disorders
Anxiety and affective disorders
Depression and mania
Obsessive-compulsive and hysterical disorders
Sexuality & Gender

APP CURRICULUM: 2023-2024, 2024-2025

First Year Schedule (2023-2024)
  Instructor(s) Time Dates
Fall 2023
Psychodynamic Concepts Dr. V. Gay 6:30-7:45pm 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9
Theory of Therapy and Therapy Process Dr. K. Nicodemus 6:30-7:45pm 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13
Technique: Assessment, Treatment Planning, and Opening Phase Dr. P. Shepherd 8:00-9:15pm 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9
Pressures to the Frame: Medications, Emergencies, Families M. Robertson

Dr. J. Behrmann

8:00-9:15pm 10/16, 10/23, 10/30,

11/6, 11/13

Personality Development: Infancy thru Latency Dr. N. Yalman 6:30-7:45pm 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18
Personality Development: Adolescence Dr. P. Rampula

Dr. A. McKeon

8:00-9:15pm 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18
Spring 2024      
Personality Development: Adulthood
Psychopathology: Symptom Formation and Character Pathology
Psychopathology: Hysteria
Psychopathology: Anxiety and Depression
Psychopathology: Narcissistic Conditions
Psychopathology: Borderline and Schizoid Conditions
(Proposed) Second Year Schedule (2024-2025)
Technique: Middle Phase
Ethics, Race, and Culture
Dreams
Psychopathology: Obsessive-Compulsive Conditions
Psychopathology: Addictions
Psychopathology: Trauma and Dissociation
Psychopathology: Psychotic Conditions
Gender and Sexuality
Special Topics: Attachment
Technique: Termination
Clinical Case Writing
Research: Outcome and Process

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