Curricula/Tracks

The program affords candidates the opportunity to take courses from faculty representing major orientations in psychoanalytic theory and practice. We encourage students to take courses reflecting differing points of view and to have supervisory experiences with faculty of diverse approaches.

However, we do recognize that individuals come to us to work within one orientation and thus, as currently structured, the program provides several options to its students. The student may select a systematic course of study in a Freudian, an Interpersonal, or a Relational orientation. Or the student may choose courses from the three orientations, as well as courses from our Independent Track. The curricula are therefore designed to encourage an intellectual community in which theoretical diversity may thrive and where greater clarity of conceptualization in current psychoanalytic thinking is achieved.

GUIDANCE -- Candidates have the option of selecting courses from any of the tracks. Candidates are never required to choose or affiliate with any single track. For candidates interested in exploring particular tracks, each track's chair is available to offer guidance about the track's curriculum, a discussion of the different level of courses, including ideas about which ones might provide a foundation for others, and to make recommendations based on the candidate's particular interests. Faculty are pleased to confer individually with candidates and help them with their course of study. To this end candidates with questions are invited to contact any of the track chairs:

Stephen Solow, Freudian;

Steven Knoblauch, Independent;

Ann D'Ercole and Judy Gold, Interpersonal;

Neil Skolnick and Nina Thomas, Relational.