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Psychoanalytic Education, Training, and Therapy

Opening new doors in understanding the underpinnings of emotional disorders while offering a unique and comprehensive approach to psychoanalytic technique.

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Applications Now Being Accepted for Spring 2026. 

Education

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

TRAINING TO BE A PSYCHOANALYST

CMPS is a New York State Licensure Qualifying Institute. The Center's program in psychoanalysis has three training levels: Matriculation,  Certificate Candidacy, and Research Candidacy. We offer a range of education and training programs including a Masters of Arts in Psychoanalysis through the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York (formerly the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis).

Training and Education

Therapy

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

TALKING HELPS

The Consultation and Referral Service is the clinical division of CMPS. We offer affordable short- and long-term therapy for a wide range of life challenges including relationships, job stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, serious illness, and life transitions. We are an inclusive clinical setting where people of all life circumstances are welcome.

Consultation and Referral

CMPS & BGSP-NY Open Houses

Join us for an informational session, led by a faculty member and student, about the programs of study offered at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York, forrmerly the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. [Click here for our Master's program webpage].

Fall 2025 

CMPS: Sat, Nov 15, 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

BGSP-NY: Sat, Nov 15, 1:00 PM Sign Up Now

For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here. 
All Events

Events and
Public Courses

Book Event: Jane Goldberg

Friday, Dec 5 at 6:30 PM for mingling and refreshments; talk begins at 7 PM.

The CMPS Alumni Association welcomes Jane G. Goldberg, PhD, who will discuss her new book,
WIRED FOR WHY; How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning

Dr. Goldberg will discuss the book within the context of the brain/psyche/mind constellation [Read more]

Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)
Saturday, December 6, 2025  |  10:00 AM –12:00 PM (Eastern)
 

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Nini Kerr, DPsych, MBACP, FHEA

This presentation explores the interobjective dimension of psychic life through the lens of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, positioning it as an extension to the more traditionally applied intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis. [Read more . . .]

One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)

Ten Wednesdays at 7:05 PM: Begins, January 28, and ends April 22 (class does not meet February 18, April 1 and 8)

15 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

This popular course offers the fundamentals of modern psychoanalytic theory and technique to those considering psychoanalytic training. Topics include transference, resistance, countertransference, and emotional communication. Open to clinicians and the public.

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