From the DC Institute Director

Our programs are a wonderful combination of scholarship, liveliness, commitment, and geographic diversity that certainly offer a unique and rich opportunity to study and grapple with psychoanalytic concepts and ideas.    We are committed to fostering the careful development of a strong analytic identity among our students and enhancing the capacity for listening with a sensitive “analytic ear”.  We welcome students from a variety of disciplines and find that ongoing collaborative study enhances a deep spirit of inquiry and curiosity about understanding the mind, its suffering, and human experience.

The Washington, DC Division offers a range of stimulating programs to help mental health professionals at all areas of expertise and experience expand and deepen their clinical abilities:

For those seeking to train to become psychoanalysts, our Institute offers an Integrated Training Program (see “Integrated Training Program” for more information).  Candidates at CFS PTI-DC can qualify as adult analysts, and if they pursue further requirements as Lifecycle psychoanalysts who are qualified to provide psychoanalysis to individuals of all ages, both children and adults (see “Lifecycle Training Program”).

We offer training to local trainees (those who can consistently commute to classes), hybrid trainees (those living at more than 60 miles one way or 1 1/2 hours driving time one way from classes, who are required to attend at least  50% of class dates in person*), and distance program students (located outside the mainland United States whose classes are solely on-line). 

*Exceptions on individual basis can be made, in discussion with the Institute Director and Progressions Committee Chair. 

We also offer an Academic Associates Program, which is a two-year program for interested professionals who wish to study psychoanalytic theory, technique, and analytic listening, but without the clinical work with patients.  This option is of particular interest to professionals in non-mental health disciplines, or to mental health professionals who would prefer this study without the additional demands of candidate control work.  There is an option to continue study into the third and fourth years of academic classes, omitting clinical classes.

In addition, we offer a Fellowship Program, which introduces psychoanalytic practice by means of clinical case discussions (see “Fellowship Program” for further information.)

I hope that you will consider training with us at CFS-DC !