Psychoanalytic Candidate Training Requirements
While we do adhere to the historical “tripartite” model of psychoanalytic training, its organizing principle is that of personal foundation. That foundation arises from our three inextricable and orienting questions and our Code of Ethics.
Put in demanding but everyday language, has one become a psychoanalyst, or is one “pretending”? We are evolving an exploration of its answer that is neither authoritarian nor laissez-faire. To that end, we do not stop searching for a democratic route, addressing the question of its meaning and the related question of narcissism’s intrusion by school leadership, as these might exist within our institute.
Training Analysis
A candidate must complete a minimum of 300 hours in one’s own personal analysis, frequency of sessions to be established between the analyst and analysand.
Control Analysis
This is an odd term, which we maintain as a connection to psychoanalytic history. What it means, or ought to mean, is being in supervision with two continuous cases, each presented weekly, and carried on a minimum of one year. The “control,” as it is called, will inevitably be informed by the candidate’s experiential knowledge gained in personal analysis.
Group Supervision
Before a candidate has cases ready for Control Analysis, Group Supervision is required on a semesterly basis.
Coursework
Over a period of four years, a candidate will complete a minimum of four years of one course per Fall and Spring Semesters each, by videoconference. See “Curriculum” for a detailed list of courses required for certification.
Continuing Education
In addition to formal psychoanalytic training toward certification as a psychoanalyst, all interested persons may participate in any of the offerings required of candidates, either for NBCC-approved credit hours or for personal or professional education.
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.
Transfer of Credits
Candidates interested in transferring to CCMPS, please contact the Clinical Director.
Non-discrimination Policy
CCMPS welcomes all students without regard to age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity.
Curriculum | Courses in Psychoanalysis
Development
- PT 1: Human Development 1 (Conception to Latency)
- PT 2: Human Development 2 (Adolescence to Dying)
- PT 3: Attachment Theory and Object Relations
- PT 4: Culture: Development and Assumptions
Theory
- PT 5: Freud and the Discovery of the Mind
- PT 6: Drive Theory and the Nature of the Unconscious
- PT 7: Trauma Theory and Psychoanalysis
- PT 8: Modern Psychoanalysis 1
- PT 9: Lacan
- PT 10: Psychoanalytic Theories of Mind 1 (Klein, Bion, Kohut, Matte-Blanco)
- PT 11: Psychoanalytic Theories of Mind 2 (Adler, Jung, Existential)
- PT 12: Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
- PT 13: Ethics in Psychoanalytic Practice
- PT 14: Research and Writing
Clinical
- PT 15: Modern Psychoanalysis 2
- PT 16: Psychopathology
- PT 17: Transference and Counter-transference Analysis
- PT 18: Analysis of Resistance
- PT 19: Character Analysis
- PT 20: Analysis of Dreams, Fantasies and Art
- PT 21: The Analysis of Psychotic and Primitive Mental States
- PT 22: Practicum
- PT 23: Group Psychoanalysis