Education

Psychoanalytic training
This program is for the student to become a psychoanalyst. Many who are interested in psychoanalytic training are psychotherapists seeking ways to deepen and expand their work with others and themselves. Others are researchers or scholars from other disciplines who are looking to psychoanalytic training to increase their effectiveness in their own field. Psychoanalytic training can provide important tools: an ability to recognize and work in depth with unconscious intrapsychic and interactional phenomena; a surer grasp of transference and countertransference; an ability to use therapeutic empathic capacities and other aspects of oneself more effectively; and a greater and more precise array of theoretical understandings and technique. Applicants often are also seeking the intellectual stimulation, emotional profundity, and immersion in relational and humanistic values that such training provides. Please click here to find out more about our Psychoanalytic Training Program.

Psychotherapy training
The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute/Topeka Center and the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute offer a two-year, post-graduate training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. This program aims to improve psychotherapy skills through comprehension of developmental and psychoanalytic theory. We address the depth of psychoanalytic understanding within an interpersonal relationship in a multi-theoretical context. We consider the full spectrum of psychoanalytic orientations, rather than teaching adherence to one school of thought. The program includes weekly classroom segments and a clinical consultation group process. Please click here to find out more about our Psychotherapy program.

Continuing education
The Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute/Topeka Center and the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute provide comprehensive scientific programs throughout the academic year. Speakers are invited to present papers covering a wide range of interests from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. To view our current program calendar, click here.