Certificate Programs in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Infants, Children, and Adolescents

This one year program is designed to build the foundation of clinical thinking and working from a psychoanalytic perspective that seeks to integrate the mutually influencing dynamics of body, mind, and world – social and physical environment.

This program offers a unique clinical training program which follows a child’s development from birth through adolescence, looking at the interacting dynamics of body, mind, and world in the experience of each child. NPI invites those who work with infants, children, adolescents and adults to become more knowledgeable in treating the complex intrapsychic, interpersonal, environmental and neurobiological challenges of those who come to see us, while building a community of clinicians to think together about their work.

Courses

Developmental Theories I, II, and III: Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence from a Psychoanalytic Perspective (30 weeks)

In this three-trimester series, we will read and discuss classical and contemporary theoretical and clinical work about psychological development and ways that development goes awry.  Together with a seasoned clinician, we will explore how to think clinically and how to work from informed clinical thinking.

Psychoneurobiology for Clinicians I and II (10 weeks)

This course introduces students to the contribution of the body to psychological development from a psychoanalytic perspective. This course is taught by a neuropsychologist with psychoanalytic background, by occupational therapists expert in sensory integration, and a psychoanalyst with expertise in infancy and toddlerhood.

Models and Modalities (10 weeks)

Seasoned psychoanalytic psychotherapists offer clinical case presentations to illustrate different modalities of working: Developmental play therapy, dyadic therapy, play therapy, and psychoanalytic talk therapy with children and adolescents. Our focus is psychoanalytic understanding, which can be extended to many techniques that integrate body and cognitive behavioral based origins.

Clinical Case Discussion (10 weeks)

Students will have the opportunity to bring their cases for us to think psychoanalytically together about: anxiety, depression, trauma, autistic spectrum disorder, attention and learning differences, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, psychosomatic collapse, and constrictions of play, gender dysmorphia, adoption, and all aspects of the human condition.

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Are you ready to make a profound impact on your life and the lives of others? Don’t miss this opportunity to become a skilled psychoanalyst. Apply now and take the first step towards a rewarding and fulfilling career.

Psychologists, MFTs and LCSWs: The Newport Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Newport Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this course series and its content. Full attendance is required for psychologists to receive credit; partial credit may not be awarded based on APA guidelines. This course series does not have any commercial support interest for sponsors, instructors, content of instruction, or any other relationship that could reasonably be construed as a conflict of interest.