Applications Now Being Accepted for Fall 2025.
Education
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
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
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CMPS & BGSP-NY Open HousesJoin 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, Oct 25, 11:00 AM Sign Up Now BGSP-NY: Sat, Oct 25, 1:00 PM Sign Up Now For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here. |
Events and
Public Courses
Annual Conference 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Eastern)
Transference Revisited: How Neurotic and Psychotic Patients Use Us Differently
Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
Annual Conference
This will be a hybrid conference
(limited in-person seating and online via Zoom)
Keynote Speaker
Bruce Fink, PhD
Discussant
Siamak Movahedi, PhD
Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)
Saturday, October 11, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]
Presenter: Ashis Roy, PhD
In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. [Read more . . .]
Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)
[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 . . .]