Now in its fourth year, the CMPS One-Year Program is designed to enrich the work of clinical practitioners and professionals in various disciplines by introducing them to modern psychoanalytic principles, theories, and techniques. In this course of study you can expect to enhance your therapeutic skills, generate new insights about yourself and your work, and develop more effective ways of interacting with your clientele. Classes focus on case material and emphasize the application of a psychodynamically informed approach. Both experiential process and more traditional teaching methods are used to promote learning. Students progress through the program as a group. Two consecutive evening classes are taught weekly each semester. A certificate of completion will be awarded.

CLASSES MEET MONDAYS 6:00-9:10pm with a 10-minute break.

Fall 2009 Semester: September 21st to December 7th.

Spring 2010 Semester: February 1st to April 26th. Tuition per semester is $1000.

CMPS Certificate Program Faculty teach all courses. Participants are invited to CMPS events where they can meet certificate program students and faculty members for an informal exchange of ideas.

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COURSEWORK

Semester One

THE MATURATIONAL PROCESS

• Differentiating the self from the other in clinical settings
  and in everyday life
• Understanding the significance of fixations and
  regressions in the psychosexual stages

TRANSFERENCE AND RESISTANCE

• Understanding the function of resistance
• Using observation for making inferences and interventions
• Recognizing transference and its implications

Semester Two

ANALYTIC LISTENING

• Listening to the unconscious level of verbal and nonverbal
  communications
• Understanding symbolic communication, dreams, slips of
  the tongue, etc.

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE

• Recognizing countertransference/using induced feelings
• Distinguishing between subjective and objective
  countertransference
• Resolving countertransference resistances

There will be $50 non-refundable application fee.