Seminars

Psychoanalysis is a rich, complex, and evolving field. The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute attracts candidates with a variety of backgrounds and interests in psychoanalysis as a clinical and intellectual pursuit. The curriculum of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program provides candidates with a thorough familiarity with psychoanalytic theories of motivation, development, and technique. The goal of psychoanalytic education is to facilitate lively, active, and creative discussion among candidates and faculty about the history, conduct, and controversies of psychoanalysis. At the end of their training, candidates should be knowledgeable about fundamental psychoanalytic ideas, be able to think about them critically, and be able to apply them in their own clinical work.

Shown below is the four-year curriculum for training in Adult Psychoanalysis. The curriculum is evaluated and reviewed by Candidates, Faculty, and the Curriculum & Faculty Committee on an on-going basis, and may undergo changes year to year. Classes begin in September and are held on Friday afternoon and early evening.

Introduction to Freud

Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Human Development - Infancy and Early Childhood

Ego Psychology:  Freud to Present

Object Relations I

Developing a Psychoanalytic Treatment

Psychodynamic Psychopathology

The Social and the Psyche

An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work

Self-Psychology

Transference-Countertransference Matrix I

Relational PSA

Transference-Countertransference Matrix II

Personality Styles:  Borderline & Narcissistic

Ethical Thinking and Practice (special topic)

PSA Assessment:  Case Formation

Trauma and Loss

An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work

Body and Psychosomatics

Countertransference and Enactments

Human Development - Latency and Adolescence

Dreams - Theory and Technique

Middle Phase of Psychoanalysis

Melanie Klein and the Modern Kleinians

Gender and Sexuality

Object Relations II:  Theory and Practice

An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work

Substance Use and Eating Disorders

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience and Medication (special topic)

Psychoanalytic Couples and Family Therapy (special topic)

Human Development - Adult Development

PSA Theory & Technique of Groups (special topic)

Sadomasochism

Criteria and Process of Termination

Integration: Theory and Technique

An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work