Training & Education

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center is an accredited Center of the American Psychoanalytic Association and maintains the standards set forth by the Board on Professional Standards of that organization. In addition to our Adult Psychoanalytic Training, Child Psychoanalytic Training, and our two programs in Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Center offers a variety of continuing education opportunities including: psychoanalytic training for residents; scientific meetings and study groups for professionals and scholars; and, community programs for professionals, scholars and interested persons. Psychoanalytic graduates of the Center are eligible to apply to the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) for certification in psychoanalysis. The eighty-plus psychoanalytic graduates have engaged in the practice and teachings of psychoanalysis throughout the United States and many have served in leadership positions in both the APsaA and the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Adult Analytic Training

Adult Training teaches the theory and practice of psychoanalysis to qualified candidates. The five-year program, conducted on a trimester academic calendar, offers a complete program for professional training in this field and encourages research in the science of psychoanalysis. During the course of study, candidates receive instruction and supervision from analysts and Training Analysts in New Orleans, Birmingham and other major cities in the South, exposing them to decades of analytic experience and expertise.

The Regional Consortium for Child Analytic Training

The Regional Consortium was recently established to provide more accessible training in child analysis throughout the Southeast. Participating faculty include child analysts in the region who may teach or supervise using audiovisual technology to extend beyond their immediate areas. Candidates in child analysis may apply at any time during or after their adult analytic training or may apply exclusively for child analytic training, consistent with the new child-only alternative training track recently approved by the American Psychoanalytic Association in June, 2007.

Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center is now offering both a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and an Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program designed for professionals in clinical practice who want to enhance their theoretical understanding of psychoanalytic principles and improve their skill in conducting intensive psychotherapy. By offering these two programs we are expanding the content of the psychotherapy course material and provinding two levels of participation depending upon the needs and desires of each individual psychotherapy fellow in terms of his/her professional development. Both psychoanalytic psychotherapy programs are two years in duration and include classes in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory as well as clinical case conferences.

Continuing Education Program

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center promotes and provides study groups for faculty, graduates and advanced candidates of the Center. The facilities and faculty are also available to psychiatry residents of Louisiana State University Medical Centers in New Orleans and Shreveport and Tulane School of Medicine for teaching and supervision. The Center holds three-to-four Scientific Meetings per year and numerous community programs, including a monthly film series, book discussion groups, for which participants earn Continuing Education and Medical Education Units.

Affiliation

Candidates in the Adult and Child Analytic Programs are automatically afforded membership in the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center and are eligible for Affiliate Membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). Upon graduation Affiliate Members become Active Members at the following meeting of the APsaA.

Admission

Full participation in the educational activities of the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center is available to any qualified individual regardless of sex, race, sexual orientation, creed, religion or ethnic background.

Adult & Child Psychoanalytic Training

The Center considers applications from physicians and non-physicians, and the course of study is the same for all who are accepted.

Prospective physician candidates

In order to be considered for admission applicants must be graduates of a medical school approved by the American Medical Association. The applicant will be considered for admission after satisfactory completion of the second year of psychiatric training. The applicant must be licensed in their state of residence and must carry professional liability insurance.

Prospective non-medical candidates for clinical psychoanalytic training

Must have obtained the highest clinical degree in their fields and must have a significant amount of experience in the practice of psychotherapy. The applicant must be licensed in their state of residence and must carry professional liability insurance.

Prospective non-physician & research candidates

May apply for training at the Center either to facilitate their scholarly work in another field (research candidates) or for purposes of pursuing a career in the practice of psychoanalysis. To be considered for admission, must have established themselves as recognized scholars and research workers in their own fields and need to have a clear plan for the ways in which psychoanalytic training would further their continuing research.

Graduation Progression

Since the progress of a candidate is a highly individual matter, the Center makes every attempt to be cognizant of specific educational needs. Candidates receive semi-annual reports of their progress and have access to the faculty at all times for discussion of any educational problems.

The Center makes every effort to help a candidate complete the training successfully and encourages discussion between candidates and faculty. The New Orleans–Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center reserves the right to terminate, at any time, a candidacy which is not progressing satisfactorily.

Minimum requirements for graduation in the adult program include:

1. Sufficient personal analysis with a training analyst for training purposes must begin prior to the onset of classes. The duration of the analysis must meet the minimum number of hours as required by the American Psychoanalytic Association.
2. Successful completion of the entire didactic curriculum.
3. Sufficient supervised analytic work with at least three suitable cases representing both sexes. This work must demonstrate the candidate's clinical skill and theoretical understanding. At least one of the cases must be in termination phase.

Minimum requirements for graduation in the child & adolescent program include:

1. Satisfactory completion of all seminars
2. Three supervised cases:  preschool/grade school, latency, adolescent* (experience with a male and female child should be represented within these three cases)

* Active adult candidates may be allowed to use their adolescent patient to also fulfill adult requirements

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Prospective Psychotherapy Fellows

This program is open to applicants who are mental health professionals of all disciplines. All applicants must be licensed in their state of residence and must carry professional liability insurance.

Programs

There are two psychotherapy paths currently offered to those interested in further developing their understanding of psychodynamic approaches to treatment. Those programs are:

1) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program
2) Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program

Fellows in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program will participate in two courses as specified in the course curriculum per trimester for a period of two years. The Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy fellows will participate in three courses as specified in the curriculum per trimester for a period of two years. Both Psychotherapy Programs are integrated with the first two years of the Psychoanalytic Training Program.

Graduation Progression

Each fellow will be assigned one advisor selected from the Center Faculty. Every six months each fellow will meet with his/her advisor to review their progress. Throughout the program fellows are encouraged to discuss any concern that he or she might have regarding the educational experience.

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center reserves the right to terminate, at any time, a fellow who is not progressing satisfactorily.

Minimum requirements for graduation in the Psychotherapy Programs include:

1. Sufficient weekly personal psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis for training purposes which must begin prior to the onset of classes.

2. Successful completion of the entire didactic curriculum for the Psychotherapy Training path chosen.

3. Sufficient supervised psychodynamic psychotherapy work with one case the first year and an additional case the second year of training. Supervisors are to be selected from Center faculty members.

Applications

Please fill out the application(s) and mail to:

New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
3624 Coliseum St.
New Orleans, LA 70115

	Child Psychoanalytic Program Application (.pdf)
	Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Application (.pdf)
	Advanced Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Application (.pdf)
	Adult Psychoanalytic Program Application (.pdf)

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Governance and Policy-Making

The Center's educational functions are directed by the Psychoanalytic Education Committee (PEC), which is appointed by the Board of Directors. The current chair of the PEC is Lee Ascherman, M.D., Talaat Mohamed, M.D. is the Chair of the Child & Adolescent Committee and Marilyn Skinner, M.D. is chair of the Faculty Committee.

Educational Program General Policies

Each candidate makes his/her own arrangements for training analysis with a training analyst from the faculty.

Courses are usually offered on an alternating year basis. Special needs of a class may bring about schedule changes.

All records are the property of the Center. No information from the Center files may be divulged without the express permission of the Psychoanalytic Education Committee and the Board of Directors.

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