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Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year: Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training

Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year - Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training - is a one-year 25-week course for licensed mental health professionals encompassing didactic material and clinical case discussions. The aim is to develop the understanding and clinical skills needed to practice intensive psychotherapy, further knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and technique, and offer a bridge to psychoanalytic training.

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  • Course Description

    Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year - Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training - is a one-year 25-week course for licensed mental health professionals encompassing didactic material and clinical case discussions. The aim is to develop the understanding and clinical skills needed to practice intensive psychotherapy, further knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and technique, and offer a bridge to psychoanalytic training.


    The course will help students deepen treatment to at least twice weekly, allowing an immersive experience highlighting the transference and countertransference elements in psychoanalytic therapy.

  • Eligibility

    Designed for graduates of psychodynamic psychotherapy and analytic fellowship programs, *licensed mental health clinicians with at least two years of psychodynamic therapy experience, and candidates admitted to the PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program who need an additional preparatory year.

    *or in advanced clinical training with psychotherapy supervision

     

  • Curriculum and Schedule

    Duration: 33 Hours total - 25 Classes 


    Time Frame:     Saturdays, 11:30AM - 12:50PM

    Start Date: TBD, Fall 2025


    Location and Learning Format:     The course is a mix of ten in person classes, and fifteen virtual classes. The class schedule and designation of class dates as either in person or virtual will be announced prior to course start date. In person classes will take place at 1 Park Avenue. 

     

    Curriculum: The syllabus includes readings on deepening treatment and distinguishing between supportive and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Clinical case presentations focus on resistance, transference and countertransference in intensive psychotherapy. Classes will address contemporary issues in psychoanalysis relevant to diverse patients seen in community settings and in private practice.

  • Early Admissions to Advanced Training

    Early Admissions Process: A Pathway to Pany’s Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program:

    Candidates enrolled in the program are welcome to apply for early admission to the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program. Acceptance into the psychoanalytic program would afford the candidate a case development supervisor and faculty advisor, in line with other psychoanalytic candidates.

  • Enrollment

    • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

    • All applicants are subject to one interview with PANY Faculty for admission to program.

    • Click here for enrollment page.

  • Course Instructors

    subject to change

    Joel Gold MD, PANY Faculty
    Jacqueline Schachter, PhD, PANY Faculty
    Michael Sobel MD, PANY Faculty
    Guillermo Valdes MD, PANY Faculty

  • Fees and Payment

    • Application Fee: $150 (Non-Refundable). If accepted, will be applied to Course Fee
       
    • Course Fee: $1,250 + $150 PEP-Web Fee (if you have PEP-Web through other means, you may waive this fee)
       
    • Payment made through enrollment form. Click here for enrollment page.

    • Credit Card, Zelle, and Paypal accepted.

  • CME/CE

    • CME; SOCIAL WORK / PSYCHOLOGY / MHC / LP CE CREDITS AVAILABLE
    • This course is eligible for 29 continuing education units. 
    • Learners must attend all 29 hours to be eligible for credit.

     

    ACCME Accreditation Statement

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    AMA Credit Designation Statement

    The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 29 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Disclosure Statement

    The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. 

    Psychoanalytic Association New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Health is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

    Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

    Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.


    Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

     

  • Learning Objectives

    • Learners will be able to apply psychoanalytic theory into their practice.
    • Learners will obtain clinical skills necessary for the application of intensive psychotherapy.
    • Learners will implement clinical skills to deepen treatment to at least twice weekly.

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What We're All About.

What We Do

For those who seek an understanding of emotional life, PANY is an education and treatment association that provides training and therapy based on psychoanalytic understanding of the core human dilemmas from childhood through adulthood. PANY is also a community of psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars, which includes graduates from our programs. We also welcome new members from the greater psychoanalytic world.  

 

Our educational programs offer opportunities for those interested in studying psychoanalytic thought and practice who come from diverse levels of background and experience. Programs range from introductory lectures to scientific meetings to intensive individualized advanced clinical training.


The Institute at PANY offers advanced training for mental health professionals. We graduate clinicians who are confident, capable, and caring practitioners. Explore our Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy programs.

Our Academic Associate program offers education for professionals for whom a general understanding of psychoanalytic thought useful in their primary field of work. This fosters a stimulating interchange of ideas between clinical psychoanalysts and scholars and professionals from other disciplines.

 

PANY's Prelude to Training program is for those interested in an academic year-long series of lectures as an introduction to getting acquainted with the history of psychoanalytic thought and the field of psychoanalysis.


Our Distance Learning program is for those outside of the New York area, including international students.

 

PANY’s Referral for Supervision Service offers licensed clinicians at all levels of experience the opportunity to participate in supervision from our faculty of experienced psychoanalysts.

 

The Society at PANY offers monthly scientific meetings for post-graduate education open to the public, and additional colloquia for our members.  

 

The Consultation and Treatment Service (CTS) at PANY offers affordable psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and children. The CTS at PANY provides referrals to our candidates for consultation and treatment.

 

The Faculty Referral Service at PANY provides referrals to graduate psychoanalysts on our faculty.

Who We Are.


PANY is a diverse collegial affiliation of clinicians united in our dedication to patient care. Our community of faculty and trainees includes individuals trained in psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychiatric nursing and other disciplines.

PANY is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone School of Medicine, and is chartered by the New York State (NYS) Board of Regents to provide licensure-qualifying psychoanalytic training. The PANY NYS Licensure-Qualifying Psychoanalysis Program (NYS-LQP) track is directed at individuals holding any Master’s degree, or higher than Master’s degree, acceptable to PANY and NYS. PANY is a member institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education.

PANY admits training candidates of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to candidates at the Institute. PANY does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, and other institute-administered programs.

Our Mission.  Our Goals.

Our Mission:

The mission of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York is to promote mental health through advanced clinical training, treatment, and scholarship.

 

Our primary goals are to:

    Train dedicated and talented mental health professionals to help patients work through their emotional difficulties so that they may lead healthier, more fulfilling lives. PANY offers a wide range of psychoanalytically-focused education programs locally and internationally to achieve this end.
  • Provide, through PANY’s Consultation and Treatment Service, affordable and accessible psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to underserved members of the community and in need of mental health care;
  • Educate fellow mental health professionals, as well as the general public, about the enduring efficacy of psychoanalytically-based treatments, through outreach seminars, clinical case conferences and lectures;
  • Foster scholarship and promote inquiry into matters that lie at the heart of psychoanalysis, especially the conflicts and complexities of human experience.

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1949

Founding of a psychoanalytic training center or "Division of Psychoanalytic Medicine" for psychoanalytic training and residency teaching at Long Island College of Medicine (LICM). 11 members of original faculty; 8 candidates in first class.

1950

LICM taken over by New York State and renamed State University at Downstate Medical Center: "Psychoanalytic Institute and Clinic at Downstate Medical Center" is the first Institute in the United States to be state supported.

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1954

Psychoanalytic Institute at State University Medical Center approved by Board of Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association (ApsaA) as a fully accredited training facility in psychoanalysis.

1955

PANY founded – Psychoanalytic Association of New York. An organization of psychoanalysts established in 1955 as a component Society of APsaA, and as an affiliated Society of the Downstate Institute. Monthly scientific meetings hosted by PANY from 1950’s to the present.

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1979 – 2011

Downstate Institute moves to NYU Medical Center in 1979 and, under a new affiliation agreement, is renamed the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute. Classes held at Bellevue for psychoanalytic candidates; Institute faculty actively involved in residency training; Expansion of Institute programs including addition of psychodynamic psychotherapy training.

2011 – 2017

New, free standing affiliate agreement made with NYU in 2011, calling for another re-naming: Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE), affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center (now financially and legally independent, with its own educational Charter from New York State).

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2017

Merger of IPE and PANY

2019

IPE renamed Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY).

Giving

 

Psychoanalysis changes lives. Talking about problems with a caring and skilled clinician can help people to feel better. Your tax-deductible donation will support our affordable treatment service and excellent training programs. We are a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization; please consider this opportunity to sponsor our mission. Your generous donation will allow us to continue to offer affordable and effective treatment to residents of NYC, Philadelphia, and their surrounding communities, and educate the next generation of psychoanalytic therapists.

 

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Psychoanalytic Association of New York
NYU Department of Psychiatry
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