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
History of Psychoanalytic Thought
Introduction to Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Human Development - Infancy and Early Childhood
Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychopathology
Developing a Psychoanalytic Treatment
The Transference Matrix
Psychoanalytic Assessment
An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work
Ego Psychology - Freud to the Present
Interpretation
Object Relations I
Borderline States
Self Psychology and Relational Theories
Trauma and Loss
Narcissism
Ethical Thinking and Practice (special topic)
An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work
Dreams - Theory and Technique
Human Development - Latency and Adolescence
Affects and Emotions
Countertransference and Enactments
Klein and Contemporary Kleinians
Middle Phase of Psychoanalysis
Gender and Sexuality
Winnicott and the British Middle School
An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work
Inhibitions & Disinhibitions: Eating, Sex, Substance and More
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (special topic)
Human Development - Adult Development
Body and Psychosomatics
Sadomasochism
Theory & Technique of Groups (special topic)
Integration: Theory and Technique
Criteria and Process of Termination
Meaning of Medications (special topic)
An ongoing Continuous Case Seminar focused on developing and refining clinical work
Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center.
1000 E. 24th St., 4E-53
Kansas City, MO 64108
816-512-7438