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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 

CMPS: Sat, Mar 29, 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

BGSP-NY: Sat, Mar 29, 1:00 PM Sign Up Now

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

Events and
Public Courses

BIPOC Student Panel: Why Psychoanalysis? (Online Event)

Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM (ET)

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.  [Read more]

Violence, Destruction, Survival: British Independent Theory in the Analytic Treatment of a Schizophrenic Patient (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 26, 2025  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern)  |  via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient, previously diagnosed as schizophrenic, who at times was severely regressed.  [Read more]

Presenter: Jonathan Sklar

Wilfred Bion, His Indian Ayah, and the Social Unconscious (Online Presentation)

Saturday, May 10, 2025  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)  |  via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Wilfred Bion produced original psychoanalytic theories and insights.  His ideas are rooted in classical analytic theory while being distinctly discontinuous from it.  [Read more]

Presenter: Karim G. Dajani