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MANHATTAN INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

For further information call the Manhattan Institute at (212) 422-1221.

The Institute offers an intensive and comprehensive psychoanalytic training program. Our core theoretical framework is Contemporary Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, with emphasis placed upon the study of this interpersonal orientation in both its historical and current theoretical contexts. The curriculum includes traditional psychoanalytic relational models. Our faculty and supervisors represent the range of contemporary psychoanalytic orientations.

ADMISSIONS

Applicants must be psychologists with a doctoral degree and a minimum of two years of clinical experience; psychiatrists with a minimum of two clinical years of post residency experience; social workers with at least two years supervised clinical experience post master's degree; or nurses with a master's or doctoral degree in psychiatric nursing with at least two years residency. To obtain a bulletin and/or an application form, please write or call the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, 80 Broad Street, Suite #902, New York, NY 10004, (212) 422-1221.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

PERSONAL ANALYSIS

The Institute is committed to the principle of intensive analytic work concurrent with training. Candidates are required to be in psychoanalysis upon entering the program and to remain in analysis for a minimum of 360 hours, of which a minimum of 300 hours is at a frequency of three times per week. The three times weekly frequency is to begin no later than September of the second year of training. Upon request, after the first year of training, the Training Committee may give consideration to prior long term intensive psychoanalysis in partial fulfillment of these requirements. The candidate's analyst must have graduated, at least five years prior, from a psychoanalytic training institute approved by the Institute.

The Institute is prepared to assist candidates who demonstrate financial need in meeting the personal analysis requirement. A list of Institute analysts comprised of graduates and faculty willing to accept a $40 per session fee, is available to candidates upon request.

COURSEWORK

Formal coursework consists of four years of classes, with two courses taken each trimester. In most instances, a theoretical course focusing upon conceptual or historical issues is paired with a clinical seminar in which candidates share an opportunity to present case material. Each course meets for one and one-half hours per session, for ten weeks, on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 PM and from 8:30 to 10:00 PM.

SUPERVISED PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPERIENCE

Candidates work with at least two patients in psychoanalysis. This work begins in the first year of matriculation, and these training cases are supervised until the candidate graduates. If candidates are unable to obtain patients for this supervised experience from their own resources, referrals may be made available from The Institute's Clinical Centers (see section on Clinical Services).

Candidates obtain a minimum of 200 hours of individual supervision, distributed among at least three supervisors, over five years, with each supervisor to be seen for a minimum of 40 hours.

Additional supervision by faculty and graduates is available at reduced fees.

FEES AND EXPENSES

Tuition: two courses per trimester: $2,200. per year.

Supervision (paid to supervisor): $40. per session.

Personal Analysis (paid to analyst): minimum of 360 hours of analysis at fee level determined with analyst (see Reduced-fee Psychoanalysis)

Refund Policy: If a candidate chooses to withdraw from coursework prior to the fourth week of classes in any trimester, he or she will receive a full refund for that trimester. If for personal emergency reasons, a candidate withdraws prior to the sixth week, he or she will receive a total refund for the trimester.

CERTIFICATE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Upon completion of the psychoanalytic training program, and upon approval of the Training Committee, candidates are awarded a Certificate in Psychoanalysis.