Psychoanalytic Certification and Continuing Education
Although our students span the globe, CCMPS has it’s roots in the American West, with its varied rural and urban cultures. In the spirit of Freud’s “psychoanalysis for the people” which blossomed in Europe between the two world wars, we strive as an institute to study and practice psychoanalysis in a way that makes deep psychological understanding accessible to folks from all walks of life.
An engaged interest in the present and future condition of individual life and civilization is the only prerequisite for non-candidate course participation. For candidacy for psychoanalytic certificate, a license or degree in a related field is needed.
Our affiliates with range anywhere from full-time faculty and psychoanalytic candidates to one-time or periodic course participants from the fields of mental health counseling, social work, psychiatry, and all modes of psychotherapy.
The Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CCMPS) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7889. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CCMPS is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Brief History
Our institute was incorporated as the Center for Emotional Education in Boulder, Colorado in August 1978 by Dr. Miriam Bloom, a graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York. In 1985 the name was changed to The Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. Subsequent incorporations were granted in March 1989 in New Mexico and April 1992 in California.
Originally its purpose was to provide a center to learn and train in the field of modern psychoanalysis. Today, our philosophy is inclusive as we appreciate the contributions of all schools of thought to our understanding of the mind. Integrating these diverse perspectives is an ongoing project in our school that takes place in our classes and conferences, which are based on an interactive and dialectical process, in which everyone participates in our quest for ever better understanding.
Because of the great geographical distance between where our students live and where we taught, CCMPS has pioneered distance learning since our inception.
Code of Ethics
At CCMPS, we continually struggle to remain open to self- and group-discovery and evolution. In brief, our search for wisdom never ceases, since humility is at the foundation of ethics. Ethics is not about moral imperatives, which are always contingent on the social order in which Codes are declared. Ethics addresses that contingency and how we might live creatively and generatively with it.