Over the course of four academic years on the semester system, with enrollment in two classes per academic year, the clinical associate will complete a minimum of 576 seminar hours. Following the fourth year, the clinical associate is required to enroll in an elective seminar every semester until graduation. Throughout the Training Program, seminars will be given on the subjects of critical inquiry and the methodology requisite for competent psychoanalytic research. Theoretical courses are given concurrently with courses focusing on clinical material and on technique through the four-year period. These basic issues are reconsidered throughout the four-year period in the light of the clinical associate's increasing experience and theoretical insights, and deal progressively with their specific application to the problems of psychopathology and psychoanalytic technique.
Clinical seminars relate technical problems to the theoretical courses being given concurrently.
All seminars are given in the English language. Clinical associates are required to have a high level of proficiency in English. To see our curriculum, please click here. Supervised Clinical Work Clinical associates will undertake supervised clinical work after receiving approval by the Education Committee. Authorization to begin supervised clinical work is dependent upon the clinical associate's total progress in training, as determined by the Student Progression Committee, and is generally granted after successful completion of six months of first-year seminars.