First-Year Training Program

The first year program focuses on psychological concepts and interventions drawn from from psychoanalysis, family systems theory, attachment theory and recent findings in interpersonal neuroscience. Classes focus on: evaluating and formulating cases; developmental issues in couples; transference and countertransference in couple therapy; projective identification in couples; making therapeutic choices; therapeutic action in couple therapy; assessing and treating sexual problems; affect regulation in couple therapy, and predictable and unpredictable problems.

Year I Educational Objectives