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 Fall 2025. 

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

All Events

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

[Read more . . .]

 

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)

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 . . .]