Psychoanalytic Education
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.
Learn more about our training tracks and scholarships and fellowships, as well as Scientific Programs and Study Groups that further psychoanalytic education for mental health professionals:
Postgraduate Training Tracks
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 psychoanalytic 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 matriculated academic students in the psychoanalysis training program. Non-clinical academic students undertake personal psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy and participate in the required curriculum.
