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The Ethics Committee (or the Committee hereafter) serves the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the CFS (CFS or the Society and the Psychoanalytic Training Institute hereafter) and its members as well as the community in which its members have contact. Its purpose is defined by the following: The primary objective of the Ethics Committee is to

**It is the responsible of all candidates to be familiar with the following Guidelines for Progression** (Rev. 11/2020) A. First Year All candidates are required to be engaged in a training analysis (a minimum of a four- time-per-week analysis) with a Training Analyst from the CFS by the middle of the first year classes. The Progression Committee (PC) will consider

The Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington, DC Program offers a program for training international distance candidates located in Asia who cannot otherwise access analytic training. Classes, supervision, and training analysis can be online although we encourage in-person involvement when possible. There are two modules of classes: one meets six Saturday mornings per semester (DC time – USA Eastern time) with our

**It is the responsibility of all candidates to be familiar with the following Guidelines for Progression** (Rev. 05/2023) A. First Year and Throughout Training All candidates are required to be engaged in a training analysis (a minimum of a four-times-per week analysis) with a Training Analyst from the CFS by the middle of the first year of classes. Waivers can

The policies listed below are currently in practice and may be subject to change. The Progression Committee will inform advisors, training and supervising analysts and candidates of any changes. A. Academic Schedule. B. Candidates are expected to be present for all classes and will inform the instructor if unable to attend. If the candidate misses more than one class of

The Academic Associate Program in psychoanalytic studies offers interested professionals the opportunity to study psychoanalysis alongside candidates in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program, but without the required control work with patients. As such, this option might be of particular interest to mental health professionals who would like to study psychoanalysis without the extra demands involved in working with control cases,

DC Institute candidates are eligible to receive continuing education credits for coursework. The DC Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to provide continuing education credits to social workers and psychologists. Important Disclosure Information: Members of the faculty committee and presenters / instructors of institute courses do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. If such a relationship

The NY Institute is approved by the New York State Education Department to offer continuing education credits to social workers and Licensed Psychoanalysts (LP). We have recently applied for approval to provide CE credits to psychologists. The application is currently pending. We hope to be able to offer CE credits to psychologists in the near future.

CFS DC’s psychoanalytic training offers the option of training to be an adult psychoanalyst or to be a lifecycle psychoanalyst. A lifecycle psychoanalyst is trained to be able to work with people of all ages. As such, in addition to the minimum two adult control cases, lifecycle candidates need to treat two control cases with a child or adolescent, as