Clinical Training

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.

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Distance Learning

Online Option: Single Session, Semester Courses, Weekend Videoconferences

June 13-18, 2022 9am-2pm US ET

Child Therapy and Child Analysis Summer Training "Weaving Together the Child’s Inner World: The Process of Psychodynamic Formulation"

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Wednesdays at 10:00am US ET and Saturdays at 9:00am US ET

Special Town Hall Discussion re: War on Ukraine

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Apply by August 1, 2022

Infant Observation - Sept 16, 2022 - July 2023

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program - advanced training in individual psychotherapy

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Starts Sept 9th

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Fall Videoconference- A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma

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Sept 10, 2022

One Day course - Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

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Sept 23, 2022 - May 19, 2023 9-11am US ET

2022-2023 Master Speaker Series: Intersectionality, Cultural Trauma and Psychodynamics

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Sept 30-Oct 2 Online Weekend Conference

Usha Tummala-Narra Ph.D. "Where psyche meets context: Engaging with sociocultural trauma and identity in psychoanalytic psychotherapy"

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Starts Oct 5, 2022

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Everyday Terms

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November 11-13, 2022 Weekend Conference

IPI Faculty: "How does the couple and family lens inform work with individuals?"

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February 10-12, 2023 Weekend Conference

Ira Brenner, MD "The DID Dilemma"

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April 21-23, 2023 Weekend Conference

Salman Akhtar, MD

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IPI Distance Learning

Certificate Programs

Object Relations Theory and Practice

The Two-Year Certificate Program in Object Relations Theory and Practice located in the Washington D.C area, provides a concentrated immersion in object relations theory and therapy.

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Infant Observation

The Infant observation program focuses on early child development, primary relationships, primitive anxieties, defenses and implications for child and adult psychotherapy later in life.

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

A post-graduate program in contemporary psychodynamic theory and therapeutic technique designed to develop clinical competency in working with patients from an object relations/intersubjective approach.

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Psychoanalytic Training (IIPT)

Four-year psychoanalytic training program, online and in-person including seminars, case presentations, group affective learning.

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Consultation Program

Consultation and supervision skills: online course includes readings, discussions, case examples, individual and group supervision settings, CE credits, and integration of the learning using the group affective model.

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Combined Child Training

A two-year program in either child psychotherapy or child psychoanalysis, this program combines weekly videoconferencing seminars with twice yearly in-person conferences, featuring presenters invested in child work.

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Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

This program is geared for 2-year Object Relations Theory and Practice program graduates (or the equivalent) who desire advanced training in couple treatment.

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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.

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IPI In-person Conferences

Onsite Conferences

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Weekend Conferences

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Overseas Programs

Overseas Program

China Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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