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Adult Psychoanalysis Program/DC
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS conceives of the training in psychoanalysis as comprising three components: course instruction, personal analysis, and control analysis.
Course Instruction
An Overview of Our New Curriculum
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS has developed a new curriculum for the Adult Psychoanalysis programs. Informed by post-Freudian developments and theoretical perspectives, as well as current research on infant development and attachment, it is a Modern Freudian Curriculum that places Analytic Listening at the center of the learning process. Seasoned clinician-instructors will present detailed clinical material that includes how they as analysts thought and felt as they made choices as to what to address in the hour. Within this rich and complex context, candidates will learn to listen to a wide range of clinical material from multiple vantage points and at many levels.
These classes in analytic listening will be coordinated with courses on key concepts. These concepts will be integrated with, and arise out of, the clinical presentations, and will attend to the unfolding of object relations in the structure of the analytic situation. In this way, theory will have an experiential base that will be alive and meaningful to the students. Candidates will simultaneously study psychoanalytic theories of development attending to the initial dyad and moving to the triad (oedipal and other).
Candidates in the Adult Psychoanalysis program in Washington attend classes from 9:00 to 5:00 on 12 Saturdays between September and May. This schedule has allowed candidates to train from as far away as Florida, Michigan and Mexico. (Please note that this program will not qualify applicants to apply for the LP credential in NY.)
Personal Analysis
Each candidate is expected to begin a personal analysis (also called a Training Analysis) with a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS when they matriculate. Should an applicant already be in analysis with someone who is not a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS and wish to continue in that analysis, discussion between the candidate, the Director of Admissions, Chair of the Progression Committee and the Institute Director would take place before acceptance into the program was finalized.
Control Analysis
Candidates conduct their own analyses under supervision, as an essential and vital part of their analytic training. The candidate sees his/her own analysand four times a week and is supervised by a Training and Supervising Analyst once weekly. By the time a candidate is ready to graduate they will have seen at least two control cases, and have had the experience of at least two supervisors. For candidates at some geographical distance from their supervisor, supervision can be arranged on an every other week schedule. Yearly case summary reports are part of the clinical responsibility of the candidate and part of the learning experience of doing psychoanalysis. Every candidate has an opportunity to discuss the summaries each year with a member of the Progression committee and an independent case summary reader. A minimum of 200 hours of supervision between the two cases is required.
For more details about the requirements for graduation, please see our Candidate Guidelines. (Section is below.)
Psychotherapy
Licensed and insured candidates are encouraged to accept and treat one psychotherapy patient referred by the Clinical Services Division.
Admissions
The Training Institute’s Adult Psychoanalysis Program welcomes applicants 25 years and older, with a Master’s or higher degree in Social Work, Psychology, Medicine or Nursing, as well as those with Master’s Degrees in other clinical disciplines, such as Creative Arts Therapy and Counseling. Applicants with previous psychoanalytic training at other IPA Institutes may also make an inquiry to the Admissions Committee with regard to the possibility of obtaining advanced status. The Committee will consider each such case in the light of the applicant's prior experience, and the comparability of the previous training, and the Institute's standards.
Graduates are eligible for membership in the New York Freudian Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Upon graduation, our members become part of a group of psychoanalysts working and learning not only locally but around the world.
For more information about admission to our Adult Psychoanalysis Program in Washington, DC, please contact Dr. Kerry Malawista at 301-983-4541.
Application Form
The program application, in PDF format, is available for download here:
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Application: Psychoanalysis Program in DC (PDF:53KB) |
Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS
Training and Supervising Analysts
DC Area
Thomas E. Allen, MD
Maurice Apprey, PhD
Harriet I. Basseches, PhD
Harmon Biddle, LCSW
Jerome S. Blackman, MD
Janet Cohen, PhD
Diane Dowling, PhD
Paula L. Ellman, PhD
Susan S. Elmendorf, LCSW
Elizabeth Fritsch, PhD
Nancy R. Goodman, PhD
Nancy E. Griscom, LCSW
Fonya Helm, PhD
Molly M. Jones-Quinn, PhD
Ellen C. Klosson, PhD
Kristina C. MacGaffin, LCSW
Kerry L. Malawista, PhD
James C. Miller, JD, PhD
Shelley Rockwell, PhD
Robert Rovner, PhD
Barbara H. Saidel, PhD
Mary Catherine Wimer, MD
Leon Wurmser, MD
New York State
Phyllis Ackman, PhD
Abby Adams-Silvan, PhD
Bonnie H. Asnes, LCSW
Sheldon Bach, PhD
Robert R. Barry, PhD
Alan Bass, PhD, LP
Delia Battin, LCSW
Phyllis Beren, PhD
Jane F. Buckwalter, LCSW
Robert F. Carr, DSW
Harold Chorny, PhD
Louise L. Crandall, PhD
Pasquale De Blasi, Jr., DSW
Patricia Doyle, PhD
Edward Eisenberg, LCSW
Carolyn S. Ellman, PhD
Vivian Eskin, PhD
R. Eleanor Esposito, PhD
Edwin Fancher, MA, LP
Judith Felton, LCSW
Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW
Elsa First, MA, LP
Emily M. Flint, LCSW
Helen K. Gediman, PhD
Marion Gedney, PhD
Debra S Gill, LCSW
Stanley Grand, PhD
Nancy Cromer Grayson, LCSW
Andrea Greenman, PhD
William M. Greenstadt, PhD
Mark Grunes, PhD
Andrea Hadge, PhD
Jane S. Hall, LCSW
Ellen R. Hirsch, LCSW
Marvin S. Hurvich, PhD
Eva Kantor, PhD
Laura Kleinerman, MS, LP
Jo Lang, PhD
Lois J. Levine, LCSW
Edwin Ira Levy, PhD
Judith Schweiger Levy, PhD
Marsha Levy-Warren, PhD
Eleanor F. Light, PhD
Susan F. Light, LCSW
Kristine Shays Lupi, PhD, LCSW
Marvin D. Markowitz, PhD
Batya R. Monder, LCSW
Martin L. Nass, PhD
Marion M. Oliner, PhD
Katharine Oram, PhD
Corliss A. Parker, PhD
Edward S. Penzer, PhD
Miriam Pierce, LCSW
Fred Pine, PhD
Sandra Pine, PhD
Lesley Post, LCSW
Hadassah Ramin, LCSW
Monica J. Rawn, LCSW
Moss L. Rawn, PhD
Daniel Raylesberg, PhD
Gail S. Reed, PhD, LP
Katharine Rees, PhD
Rita Reiswig, MS, LP
Arlene K. Richards, EdD
Phillida B. Rosnick, PhD
Crayton E. Rowe, Jr., LCSW
Lynne S. Rubin, PhD, LCSW
Ann Rudovsky, LCSW
Marilyn Sande, LCSW
Esther Savitz, LCSW
Shirley Herscovitch Schaye, PhD, LP
Edith Schwartz, PhD
Susannah Falk Shopsin, LCSW
Susan Siegletuch, LCSW
Mark Silvan, PhD
Ellen Sinkman, LCSW
Phyllis L. Sloate, PhD
Donna Roth Smith, LCSW
Katherine Snelson, LCSW
Stephen P. Solow, PhD
Rogelio Sosnik, MD, LP
Phyllis Springer, LCSW
Irving Steingart, PhD
Joyce Steingart, PhD
Elspeth Strang, LCSW
Iris Sugarman, LCSW
Aaron M. Thaler, PhD
Toni C. Thompson, LCSW
Ferne Traeger, LCSW
Carole Trevas, LCSW
Joann K. Turo, MA, LP
Saul Tuttman, PhD
Donald W. Whipple, PhD
Nancy H. Wolf, LCSW
Ilene Young, EdD, LP
Other Locations
Edward S. Levin, PhD (Florida)
Joyce McDougall, Ded (France)
Stanley Moldawsky, PhD (New Jersey)
Jack Novick, PhD (Michigan)
Kerry Kelly Novick (Michigan)
Lilo Plaschkes, LCSW (Israel)
John Rosegrant, PhD (Arizona)
Victor Schein, LCSW (New Hampshire)
Gordon A. Tripp, MD (Massachusetts)
Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYFS
Guidelines for Admission and Training
Programs in Adult Psychoanalysis
Application and Admission Process
Inquiries for admission can be made either to the Chair of Admission or the Director of the Institute. Upon request, an applicant will be sent a packet containing the application form and forms for letters of recommendation. There is a $50 fee for the processing of the application and the check is made out to the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the NYFS. All of the above is to be mailed to the Chair of Admissions.
Once the admission materials have been returned, the Admissions Directors will set up interviews for the applicant. Each applicant is interviewed by two or three members of the Admission Committee.
Registration
A candidate must register with the Institute twice a year, once for the spring and once for the fall semesters. Registration entails a payment to the Institute and an Updated Candidate Progress Report and Analyst Confirmation Form
- Fees: All candidates, those taking classes, those who have completed the required classes but have not met all the requirements for graduation, and those on leave, need to register. A late fee of $75.00 will be charged for registration and matriculation fees files after the deadline. Candidates should speak with the Institute Director regarding a deferred payment plan or scholarship funds well in advance of the registration dead line.
- Candidate Progress Forms and training Analyst Confirmation Form: The candidate needs to fill out the Candidate Progress Update Form to update and document his/her supervision hours and completed coursework. The candidate must also record the frequency of his/her training analysis and the start date, and termination date, if applicable. Registration will be considered incomplete until all parts of the packet are received.
Progression Committee:
A unique aspect of our training program is the Progression Committee (PC) of of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute, which was established to foster communication with the candidates and ensure that their specific training requirements are addressed. Upon admission to the Institute, each candidate is assigned a PC Liaison, who follows the candidate until completion and keeps the Progression Committee informed of the candidate's progress. This individualized attention to the candidate's needs provides the candidate with a deep understanding of the analytic case and fosters the personal and professional development of the candidate.
Training (Personal) Analysis:
Candidates are expected to begin a four-times-per-week analysis with a Training Analyst from the Psychoanalytic Training Institute when the first year classes begin. The candidate will have the opportunity to choose an analyst from a list of Training Analysts of the Institute and will also be given a list of the Training Analysts willing to conduct low fee analyses. If the candidate has been in a longstanding analysis with a Training and Supervising Analyst from another Institute, the Institute Director and Progression Committee of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the NYFS will consider this analyst and analysis and determine if it can be an approved training analysis. If this analysis is not approved, the Progression Committee will take under consideration requests to postpone beginning a new analysis for up to one semester so the candidate can have time to terminate the present analysis.
Readiness-for-Control:
An essential part of a candidate's preparation to become a psychoanalyst is the analyses he/she conducts under supervision. To undertake control or supervised work, the candidate needs to pass a readiness for control examination (RFC). This examination is conducted by a committee of three members of The Institute and is usually scheduled during the second year of training. Candidates with substantial prior clinical experience can request an RFC earlier than their second year. For those needing additional clinical experience the RFC may be delayed.
Control Work:
Candidates must conduct a minimum of two control (supervised) analytic cases each seen in person and four times a week. These cases need to be supervised by two different Training and Supervising Analysts from the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the NYFS. The candidate will be given a list of Training and Supervising Analysts willing to conduct a low fee supervision. Each supervision will be on a once a week basis. Double Supervision sessions are considered for a supervisee at a geographical distance from his/her supervisor.
A central educational feature of the control work or supervised experience is the Annual Case Write Up. A member of the Progression Committee and case reader support the candidate in the formulation and written expression of their understanding of the case.
Final Case Presentation:
The Final Case Presentation (FCP) represents the culmination of the candidate's training in psychoanalysis at the Institute. After conferring with the Progression Committee, the candidate initiates the request to present a final case. The candidate will submit a written report of the case to be presented to his/her Evaluation Committee. The Committee consisting of five members of the Institute will meet to listen, discuss and evaluate the candidate's work and readiness to practice independently. Issues such as transference development, analysis of resistance, counter-transference, and establishment of an analytic process are discussed in the group. Successful completion of the Final Case Presentation and approval by the Progression Committee confers on the candidate membership in the New York Freudian society and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Colleagues welcome the participation of new members in peer group case discussions, reading groups dealing with theories or new ideas in psychoanalysis, and a rich and diverse menu of scientific programs as part of continuing education. New members will find opportunities to contribute to the ongoing life of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute through committee membership.
Training Policies
The policies listed below are currently in practice and may be subject to change. The progression Committee will inform advisors, training and supervising analysts and candidates of any changes.
- The academic year is 30 weeks. Candidates meet on Monday evening for their coursework and take two courses per semester , unless an alternative plans has been arranged through the Progression Committee. Electives and other program options may meet at other predetermined times.
- Candidates are expected to be present for all classes and will inform the instructor if
unable to attend. If the candidate misses two sessions of a fifteen week course, one
session of a ten week course, or any sessions of a course of shorter duration , the
candidate will write a paper for the class on a topic agreed upon with the instructor.
- If an instructor must miss a session, the instructor will notify the Chair of the Faculty Committee and arrange with the candidates for an appropriate make-up class.
- The Psychoanalytic Training Institute's Faculty and Curriculum Committees review and evaluate course offerings and Institute faculty performance on an on-going basis. A crucial part of this evaluation is the confidential evaluation form that candidates must complete at the end of each semester.
- Faculty evaluations of candidates will be submitted immediately after the semester ends. A copy will be sent to the Administrative Directors, who will forward copies to the PC Liaison and Advisor assigned to the candidate to review with the candidate. Candidates have direct access to the instructors' evaluations.
- The Grievance Process: If a candidate does not agree with the recommendations of
the Progression committee at the end of the Readiness-for-Control interview or at the
end of the Final Case Presentation, the candidate may appeal to the Director of the
Institute, who will carefully review the findings of the PC with the President of the
Institute. The review may include meeting individually with each person involve in the
ongoing progression of the candidate's work, reviewing all minutes of the PC, meeting
with the candidate, the members of the evaluation committee responsible for the
decision, and consulting with supervisors and instructors of the candidate. The Institutes
President and the Institute Director's decision will be binding.
For clarification and adjustments in the candidate's ongoing evaluation of their work other than the two evaluations listed above, the candidate can contact their Progression Committee Liaison, and if not satisfied, the Progression Committee Chair.
The Progression Committee may suspend or terminate a candidate's training in the case of the candidate's failure to met standards toward reasonable progress toward graduation, or for violation of ethical precepts for the practice of psychoanalysis. Reasonable progress toward graduation shall mean continued satisfactory review by instructors and supervisors, timely completion of requirements, such as Progression Committee receipt of case summaries, as well as immersion in the practice of psychoanalysis. The candidate has the right to appeal this decision under the appeal process indicated above. - Questions regarding curriculum or faculty should be directed to the respective Chair of Faculty or Curriculum Committee of the Psychoanalytic training Institute.
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