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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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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 Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York (formerly 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 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 2026 

CMPS: Sat, May 16, 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

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All Events

Events and
Public Courses

Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026 • 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Alumni Association Event Open to the Public

Doors Open at 6:30 PM

While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. [Read more]

Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman

BIPOC Student Panel—Why Psychoanalysis?

Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Public Event: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for an informal virtual discussion among students of color studying at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, a New York State licensure-qualifying psychoanalytic training institute, and its sister school, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis—New York, which offers the Master of Arts in Psychoanalytic Studies. Students will talk about what led them to psychoanalysis and their experiences as BIPOC students at a white majority school. [Read more]

Moderator: Nardia Brooks

Panelists: Danielle Ocampo, Jeremiah Stewart, Victoria Cuellar, and Michael Martinez

One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)

Ten Thursdays at 7:10 PM – 8:40 PM
September 17 – November 19

15 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

This popular course offers the fundamentals of modern psychoanalytic theory and technique to those considering psychoanalytic training. Topics include transference, resistance, countertransference, and emotional communication. Open to clinicians and the public.

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