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Psychoanalytic Education, Training, and Therapy

Opening new doors in understanding the underpinnings of emotional disorders while offering a unique and comprehensive approach to psychoanalytic technique.

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Applications Now Being Accepted for Fall 2025. 

Education

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

TRAINING TO BE A PSYCHOANALYST

CMPS is a New York State Licensure Qualifying Institute. The Center's program in psychoanalysis has three training levels: Matriculation,  Certificate Candidacy, and Research Candidacy. We offer a range of education and training programs including a Masters of Arts in Psychoanalysis through the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.

Training and Education

Therapy

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

TALKING HELPS

The Consultation and Referral Service is the clinical division of CMPS. We offer affordable short- and long-term therapy for a wide range of life challenges including relationships, job stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, serious illness, and life transitions. We are an inclusive clinical setting where people of all life circumstances are welcome.

Consultation and Referral

CMPS & BGSP-NY Open Houses

Join us for an informational session, led by a faculty member and student, about the programs of study offered at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York, forrmerly the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. [Click here for our Master's program webpage].

Spring 2025 Online Virtual Open Houses

TBA

For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here. 
All Events

Events and
Public Courses

A Memorial for Sara Sheftel

Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 3 PM
Open to the public via Zoom

Dr. Sara Sheftel was a committed psychoanalyst, supervisor, and faculty member.  She was a staunch proponent of modern psychoanalysis.  [Read more . . .]

Celebrating 15 Years of the Podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis

Friday, March 7, 2025  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM 

Featuring Tracy Morgan and Anna Fishzon

When New Books Network launched the podcast New Books in Psychoanalysis it was among the first new media to present interviews of analytic authors to the world at large, beyond the walls of psychoanalytic institutes. [Read more]

CANCELED: A Fanonian Perspective on the Analyst's Experience of Skin Color Difference: One of the Last Frontiers in Multicultural Discourse

Saturday, March 22, 2025  |  1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)

Hybrid Presentation: In-Person and via Zoom
Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis


Fanon views sociocultural influences on the unconscious as integral to psychic formation and central to all aspects of every individual’s experience of oneself in the world. [Read More]

Presenter: Annie Lee Jones