Requirements for Graduation

Certificate in Psychoanalysis

1) An approved training analysis consisting of at least 300 sessions, of which 50 may be group analysis.

2) Satisfactory completion of required course work. (see page 3 of the 

Current registration information

3) Recommendation of Fellow.

4) A minimum of 1500 hours of supervised clinical treatment of case at the Consultation and Referral Service, 750 hours of which are direct contact hours

5) Satisfactory completion of supervision requirements: PT 211i, PT 311, and PT 411. Two hundred sessions of supervision with three different supervisors is the minimum requirement: a minimum of fifty hours of PT 211i Beginning Individual Supervision of Consultation and Referral Service Cases with one supervisor (other than the PT 311 and PT 411 supervisors), a minimum of fifty hours of PT 311 Supervision of Consultation and Referral Service Cases with one supervisor (other than the PT 211i and PT 411 supervisors), and a minimum of fifty hours of PT 411 Control Analysis with one supervisor (other than the PT 211i and PT 311 supervisors). The fifty hours (minimum) spent in PT 411 is exclusively focused on the control case.

6) A case presentation before the Faculty demonstrating the ability to recognize and resolve resistances and an understanding of the dynamics of psychic processes. Students who have a minimum of 25 hours of PT 411 and who have completed all coursework are eligible to make this presentation.

7) Satisfactory presentation of a research paper, written in the final stage of training, which demonstrates both an ability to apply fundamental research principles in a case study and an understanding of motivational forces and their role in the psychic structure.

8) Satisfactory presentation of the treatment of the control case before the faculty.

9) Satisfactory completion of CS 101, Seminar in Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect.

*Requirements for graduation are subject to change.