IPI offers a range of clinical training options for those who wish to practice from a psychodynamic perspective. Clinicians may focus on in-depth or short-term treatments with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents in varied treatment settings. Our programs provide didactic instruction on classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique combined with clinical applications to facilitate the development of clinical skills and dynamic understanding.
Distance Learning
Online Option: Single Session, Semester Courses, Weekend Videoconferences
March 3, 2021
When Couple Therapy Reactivates Trauma
March 5, 2021
Shame in the life of African-American Adolescent Boys with Kirkland Vaughans
March 7, 2021
Transference/Countertransference: Narrative of a Latency Child in Psychotherapy and in Analysis
March 7, 2021
Free Town Hall with Informational Session
March 19, 2021
Ebook Lecture Series: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter (part 1)
March 21, 2021
Free Town Hall
March 28, 2021
Interpretation and Working through in an Adolescent Analysis
April 2, 2021
Ebook Lecture Series: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Clinical Encounter (part 2)
Online Weekend Conference April 9-11, 2021
How the Light Gets In: Contemporary Understanding and Treatment of Trauma
April 16, 2021
Probing Shame and Humiliation with Guillermo Bigliani
April 18, 2021
Child and Adolescent Family Dynamics
April 21, 2021
From Dysfunction to Erotic Discovery
April 28, 2021
Oedipus for Everyone
May 12, 2021
Family psychoanalysis with case of sexual abuse at home
May 14, 2021
Seeing or being watched: shame and the body with Alessandra Lemma
May 21, 2021
Ebook Lecture Series: The Tomb and the Womb: Harry Guntrip's Contributions to the Object Relations Tradition
Starting June 2021
Combined Child Training Program
Starting June 2021
Object Relations Theory and Practice (our foundational core program)
Next Session Fall 2021
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Everyday Terms
Next Session Fall 2021
Seminar on Essential Elements in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Consultation
Next Session Fall 2021
Infant Observation
Next session Fall 2021
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PPP) Videoconference

Certificate Programs
Looking for weekend conferences?
Many of IPI's training opportunities are available to participants who can't enroll in one of the full training programs. Students are welcome to come to one, or several, of the events at a level of participation that suits you.

In-Person Conferences
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Overseas Programs
Overseas Program