Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE)
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Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE)
Welcome to the Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE). The DPE promotes excellence and innovation in psychoanalytic education while supporting professional development throughout the analytic life cycle. We approach the tasks of psychoanalytic education, training, and formation of a psychoanalytic identity in a creative, flexible, and disciplined manner. We emphasize critical thinking, depth, breadth, rigor, and exploration of new ideas as psychoanalysis continues to evolve. We believe that psychoanalysis has much to offer and learn from active dialogue with other disciplines. We view psychoanalysis as both a powerful treatment and a powerful method to understand the mind in its depth, complexity, and impact. We recognize that our internal worlds and our social and cultural surround continuously interact and shape each other, and that psychoanalysis has a critical role to play in understanding and addressing pressing issues and dynamics on an individual, group, and societal level. We hope to provide an educational home that fosters ever deepening unique and novel psychoanalytic identities that contribute to these goals.
Contact Information
- Sandy Landen, Ph.D., DPE Head; [email protected]
- Holly Crisp, M.D., DPE Associate Head; [email protected]
The APsA Standards and Principles for Psychoanalytic Education guide the DPE in its endeavors particularly with their emphasis on learning and growth throughout the analytic life cycle. We participate in the Inter-Institutional Initiative which meets regularly with institute/center leadership across the country in conjunction with the APsA President, President-Elect and other APsA leadership to discuss common challenges and exchange ideas. As our organizational chart shows, we have eight Sections and two Councils. We also present the DPE Education Forum and the DPE Scholarship Forum at the APsA national meetings. The DPE Head and Associate Head in conjunction with the Chairs of our Sections and Councils, along with our Candidate representatives and Program Committee representative, comprise our Steering Committee. In all its endeavors, the DPE is strictly non-regulatory.
The DPE helps teachers and students engage deeply with psychoanalytic ideas and apply them in our changing world by providing resources to support all aspects of analytic education at APsA affiliated institutes and centers. The DPE Teaching, Curriculum, and Professional Development (TCP) Section provides process and content help with each of the areas in its name, including supervision from a developmental perspective. The DPE Institute Advisory and Consultation Section (IACS) provides confidential help to APsA institutes and centers of a focal, intermediate, or comprehensive nature. The DPE integrates perspectives from each of our specialty-focused Sections, which include Diversities, Research, Child, Community, Psychotherapy, and Scholarship & Writing. The DPE Council of Education Encounters (CEED) provides a forum for collegial exchange of educational ideas and practices in dialogic exchange among teams of colleagues from groupings of APsA and IPA institutes/centers. The DPE Council for Leadership and Organizational Studies (CLOS) provides educational resources to APsA and IPA psychoanalytic institutes/centers and other organizations in our communities to enhance our effectiveness as leaders and promote the health of organizations striving to become more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just. Click on each for an expanded description of these DPE entities and click on the DPE Library of Resources below. We actively encourage candidate members and participation in DPE endeavors wherever possible. Various DPE components focus on practice development and other pathways to grow professionally, including as leaders confronting challenges vital to the growth and vibrancy of our institutes, centers, and broader field.
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EDUCATION & TRAINING
- Psychoanalytic Training
- Adult
- Child & Adolescence
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) References
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Education
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been developed, practiced, and taught by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from its beginnings. Students and practitioners learn to apply psychoanalytic concepts in a variety of clinical settings with a wide range of patients and clients.
For most mental health professionals, the graduate training experience does not fully prepare one to be a skilled, knowledgeable, and confident therapist. While we continue to learn from our patients throughout our professional lives, we believe that advanced formal training is crucial to our efforts to provide the highest level of clinical competence.
More recently, because of the relative neglect of such training in universities and other training programs, psychoanalytic centers and institutes have developed formal instruction programs in the discipline of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
While individual programs differ in their specifics, typically they are based upon the core psychoanalytic tripartite training model of didactic seminars, clinical supervision, and personal therapy. Programs are available not only in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy but also in child and/or child and adolescent psychotherapy.
The following programs affiliated with APsA are designed to enrich psychotherapeutic skills and to provide a background in psychodynamic principles and the theoretical basis of clinical work. Click on the links for more specific information on each program:
- Adult
- American Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Atlanta Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
- Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.
- Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (Houston)
- Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
- Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
- Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
- Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis & The Denver Psychoanalytic Society
- Florida Psychoanalytic Center Inc.
- Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Society, Institute, and Foundation
- Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
- The Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society
- New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
- New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
- New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
- Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
- Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) Affiliated with NYU Langone Health
- Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
- Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas
- Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
- San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC)
- San Francisco Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
- Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
- William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology
- Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Child & Adolescence
- Center for Psychoanalysis Studies (Houston)
- Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
- Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
- New Center for Psychoanalysis
- The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
- Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
- The Psychoanalytic Institute affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine
- San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
- St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
- Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
- William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been developed, practiced, and taught by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from its beginnings. Students and practitioners learn to apply psychoanalytic concepts in a variety of clinical settings with a wide range of patients and clients.
- Teaching
- National Directory of Teachers/Instructors
- Hybrid Teaching
- Teaching Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aging
- See “Teaching Supervision”
- Introduction to Curriculum Resources for Teaching Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Aging: (developed by The Aging and Psychoanalytic Education Study Group of the DPE Committee on Psychoanalytic Studies)
As interest in the full life cycle from a psychoanalytic perspective is on the rise, our study group has developed the following resources to enable the development of new courses on psychoanalytic perspectives on late-life patients. The links below lead to two model curricula and three extensive bibliography reference resources.
Candidates and members are interested in learning more about this profound period of life and in treating these patients who are often highly motivated and benefit significantly from psychoanalytic treatments. We are offering two overlapping but distinctly different “model” curricula to serve as starting points for training centers and teachers developing such courses. Both curricula focus on the importance of bringing working knowledge of this life phase to our candidates and members.
And, our study group is available to you as an additional resource. Please feel free to be in touch.
Audrey Kavka, Chair
Bob Galatzer-Levy
David Joseph
Patricia Plopa
Daniel Plotkin
Barbara Stimmel- A Model Curriculum 1: Psychoanalytic perspectives on aging: late life curriculum 2019
- A Model Curriculum 2: Psychoanalytic development: developmental challenges in later life
- References: Psychoanalytic literature on later life and psychoanalysis of the elderly
- References: Gerontology and psychotherapy with the elderly – references
- References: Illness in the analyst references
- Curriculum
- Core Curriculum
- Neuropsychoanalysis (Marcia Levy)
- Substance Abuse (Lance Dodes)
- Psychoanalytic Residency Education (Mark Poster)
- Curricula that focuses on Diversities and Identity development
- See “Diversities” for more
- Ethics Courses
- Psychoanalytic Practice
- Recommendations from the Report on Economics of Training
- See “Professional Development”
- Recommendations from the Report on Economics of Training
- Elective Curricula
- Psychoanalysis and meditation
- Psychoanalysis in the military
- Core Curriculum
- Professional Development
- Early Career Development
- Mid-Career
- Senior and Late Career
- Supervision
- Teaching Supervision
- DPE Education Forum on Teaching Supervision Presentation 2/1/23, by Nancy McWilliams, PhD
- Watch: Bring Your Teaching to Life!
The Department of Psychoanalytic Education presents 6 short educational videos from psychoanalyst and educator Deborah Cabaniss that will help you and your institute plan and conduct teaching activities for your trainees. - Videos:
- Part 1: Learning Objectives
- Part 2: The Three Flavors of Learning Objectives
- Part 3: Backwards Design & Measuring Success
- Part 4: Putting the “Active” in Teaching Activities
- Part 5: Bringing It All Together: An Exercise
- Part 6: Some Final Thoughts
- Teaching Supervision
- Artificial Intelligence
RESEARCH EDUCATION
- Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Studies
- Integration of Research in Psychoanalytic Education
Co-sponsored by:
The Research Education Section of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Department of Psychoanalytic Education (APsA-DPE) in collaboration with the Research Committee of the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP).
This collection of Research Education Resources serves to provide materials for stimulating interest in topics and research relevant to psychoanalytic education. Our goal is that materials made available here will stimulate critical thinking and will help ground psychoanalytic training in a framework that integrates psychoanalytic knowledge with relevant findings from other disciplines.
- VIMEO Links to videos of APsA-DPE Research Education Dialogue
- 2018 – Critical Thinking and Research in Psychoanalytic Education
Presenters: Ellen Rees, M.D. & Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.
Discussant: Andrew J. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D.
Click here to view - 2019 – Another Look at Therapeutic Action and Implications for Psychoanalytic Training and Education
Presenters: John Clarkin, Ph.D. & Leon Hoffman, M.D.
Discussant: John H. Porcerelli, Ph.D.
Click here to view - 2020 – What Do We Mean by Corrective Emotional Experience and What is its Therapeutic Role?
Presenters: Glen Gabbard, M.D., Christopher Christian, Ph.D., and Mark Hilsenroth, Ph.D.
Click here to view - 2021 – The Role of Mentalization and Reflective Function in Psychoanalytic Treatment: TFP & MBT
Presenters: Elizabeth Allison, Ph.D., Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., and Otto Kernberg, M.D.
Discussants: Morris Eagle, Ph.D., and Diana Diamond, Ph.D.
Click here to view
- 2018 – Critical Thinking and Research in Psychoanalytic Education
- Links to Additional Resources
- The APsA Scientific Paper Prize – established in 2004, an annual award for the most outstanding empirical paper relevant to psychoanalysis published in English in a peer-reviewed journal.
- APsA’s CORE Bibliography
- The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) Open Door Review – outcome and process studies in psychoanalysis
- Rapaport-Klein Study Group – A rich archive of programs from 1963 by leaders in the field who shared an interest in studying theoretical and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis and psychology, especially from a research point of view.
- Peter Lilliengren’s compilation of RCT’s – involving psychodynamic treatment or interventions
- Psychoanalytic Research Consortium – This website introduces the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium and its resources including its library of recorded cases available to qualified researchers.
- IPA The Research Training Programme – This multi-day program provides attendees with opportunities for constructive consultation with regards to ongoing or planned research projects.
- Course Curriculum Resources
- Additional Sections Under Development
- An archive of papers discussing research education or pedagogy
- Archived materials from other sources: This project is a developing one. Sections will be elaborated, modified, and updated as new materials become available.
SCHOLARSHIP & WRITING
- Journal Profiling Project
- Analytic Case Writing
- DPE in The American Psychoanalyst (TAP)
- 2016, #4- Gann-Today’s Future Psychoanalytic Education and the DPE
- 2017, #2-Sugarman & Schiller-APsaA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education
- 2017, #3-Sugarman & Schiller-Standards, Excellence and the DPE
- 2017, #3-Gann-The PSF Committee-Music to the Ears-The Psychoanalytic Scholarship
- 2019, #1-Sugarman-Supervision: An Understated Pillar of Psychoanalytic Education
- 2019, #1-Barron-The Psychoanalyst in the Community
- 2019, #2-Eagle & Goodman-DPE Research Education Section
- 2019, #3-Sugarman-Should Psychoanalytic Candidates Be Taught Psychotherapy
- 2019, #3-Hart, Why Diversities?
- 2020, #1 -Jacobson & Kwawer, Institute Advisory & Consultation Section of the DPE (IACS)
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
- Leadership and Organizational Studies
- Institute and Advisory Consultation (Accessible to Members Only)?
DIVERSITIES
- Curriculum
- Interpersonal/Relational/Intersectional Psychoanalysis
- APsA DPE Diversities Resources Database Webpage(Beta)
- Bibliographies
- Holmes Commission
- Strategic Development and Implementation of the Holmes Commission Task Force Findings
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE COMMUNITY
- Curriculum
- Bibliographies
MEDIA
- Podcasts
- Videos
Link to: Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Section
Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Section
Link to: Institute Advisory and Consultation Section
Institute Advisory and Consultation Section
Link to: Teaching, Curriculum, and Professional Development
Teaching, Curriculum, and Professional Development
Link to: Psychotherapy Education Section
Psychotherapy Education Section
Link to: The Psychoanalyst in the Community Section
The Psychoanalyst in the Community Section
Link to: Diversities Section
Diversities Section
Link to: Scholarship and Writing Section