Psychoanalytic Program Curriculum

Course Description:
Each of the 8 classes will highlight different theories or schools of thought, including drive theory, ego psychology, object relations theory, attachment theory, relational theory, and neuroscience. Each class is 2 hours long without breaks. They also will be focusing upon psychoanalytic research over the years to see how this research has contributed to better treatment of children within institutional and family settings. Students will gain insight into how these theoretical contributors were influenced by their environment and by their unique personalities. In every class, the instructor and the students will discuss how these theories of development might unfold in their own cases and this will give participants an increased appreciation of the complexity of human behavior. It also will allow students to learn how to discuss their cases to gain peer and instructor supervision. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading several papers and by thinking about how these theories might be applicable to their own cases. At the end of the semester, participants will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the course. The instructor will use this information to better tailor this course for her students.
Learning Objectives:

1.  The candidate will be able to discuss how these theories of development might unfold in their own cases and this will give participants an increased appreciation of the complexity of human behavior.
2. The candidate will be able to identify how psychoanalytic research over the years has contributed to better treatment of children within institutional and family settings.
3. Candidates will be able to will be able to demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.

Who Should attend:
This is a first-year course for beginning-level social workers and other mental health professionals beginning the program.
Instructors:
Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W., has been the Dean of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that, she worked at Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is presently a supervisor of social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-Director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.

Natasha Baron, MD, PsyA, is a graduate of the Institute.  She was a pediatrician in the Philippines prior to becoming a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the United States.  She currently has a private practice working psychoanalytically and providing psychopharmacology to children, adolescents, and adults.  In addition, she is a Staff Psychiatrist at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

Lauren Waddell, LCSW, PsyA, is a graduate of the Institute.  She has a private practice and works with Jewish Family and Children Services of Northern New Jersey.  She works with children, adolescents, adults, and couples.  In addition to the individual work, she has also run several groups.

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Dates of Course:

10/6/26, 10/20/26, 11/3/26, 11/17/26, 12/1/26, 12/15/26, 1/5/27, 1/19/27

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Early Development, course #5961, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [xx/xx/xxxx-xx/xx/xxxx]. Social workers completing this course receive 16 total credits including 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

This is the first half of a survey course of the writings of Sigmund Freud. The purpose of the course is to give an idea of the breadth of Freud’s writings. In order to gain focus, we will point out the major points of each paper. The papers will be covered in more detail as they are specifically addressed in later courses. Some of the important concepts to appreciate are: the unconscious (topographic theory), the structure of the psyche (structural hypothesis), and the multiple contents of symptoms (overdetermination); symbolic meanings, character traits; libidinal drives, psychosexual stages (oral, anal, urethral, phallic, genital), psychoeconomics, infantile sexuality, the centrality of the Oedipus complex. Although Freud wrote some theoretical papers (e.g. “metapsychological papers”), ultimately his writings were based on clinical experience.

Learning Objectives:
1. The candidate will be able to define basic Freudian concepts: including the unconscious, structure of the psyche, and the multiple contents of symptoms.
2. The candidate will demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.
3. The candidate will give examples of the development of psychoanalytic concepts.

This is a first-year course for beginning-level social workers and other mental health professionals beginning the program.

Instructors:
Mosse Burns, L.C.S.W, PsyA, is a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has been in private practice since 1996. In her practice, she provides clinical services to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Practice includes working with seniors, adults, and adolescents. Prior to this, Ms. Burns worked at multiple mental health services including SERV, Christian Health Care Center, and Mid-Bergen Mental Health Clinic.

Robert Ciampi, LCSW, PsyA is a graduate of The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies.  He currently sees adults and couples in his private practice, which he has had since 2010.  He has worked in a variety of mental settings, including hospitals and community mental health.

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8  sessions.

2/17/26, 3/03/26, 3/17/26, 3/31/26, 4/14/26, 4/28/26, 5/12/26, 5/26/26

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Readings in Freud I, 6157, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 01/17/2025-01/17/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to introduce mental health professionals with an understanding of the character (and character traits) as the basic functional organization of the personality, with pleasure inherent in the repetition of various character traits. Through colloquium-style lecture and case examples class members will come to appreciate character traits such as observing ego, pleasure in repetition, defenses, transference; to appreciate that these character traits are ego-syntonic (agreeable to the ego); to appreciate that the work of therapy is to render these character traits ego-dystonic. (16 clock hours)
Learning Objectives:

1. The candidate will be able to define basic concepts of character analysis.
2. The candidate will demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.
3. The candidate will examine cases to discover how a specific character trait develops from the underlying concepts and dynamics of character analysis.

Who Should Attend:
This is a second-year intermediate course for candidates in our program.
Instructors
Anat Joseph, LCSW has been on the faculty of The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies for the past year. She began her private practice over 6 years ago, working with adolescents through adults. Prior to this, she was Treatment Director at The Millicent Fenwick House for 3 years. Before this, she was a Clinical Social Worker at Bergen Family Center for 3 years.

Margaret Debrot, LCSW has been in private practice working with older adults, adults, adolescents, and children for almost 15 years. She has been on the faculty of IPS since 2010.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Dates of Course:

10/7/25, 10/21/25, 11/4/25, 11/18/25, 12/2/25, 12/16/25, 1/6/26, 1/20/26

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Character Analysis, course #5922, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [08/22/2024-08/22/2026]. Social workers completing this course receive 16 total credits including 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of and clinical issues with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be assigned readings by experienced clinicians who are dealing with a variety of symptoms that are typically handled by clinicians. The instructor will use clinical examples of her own and from the students’ cases to inform the class about how to deal with some of the difficulties that are encountered by social workers who work with children, adolescents, and their families. Students will be helped to gain some knowledge of the complexity of human behavior and begin to see how they might deal with children, adolescents, and their families with empathy and respect.

Learning Objectives:

1. The candidate will be able to define basic concepts of development for clients from latency through adolescents.
2. The candidate will demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.
3. The candidate will examine cases to discover how a specific pathology develops from the underlying concepts and dynamics of development through adolescence.

Who Should Attend:
This is an intermediate course in the second year of our program.

Instructor:
Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. is the Dean and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that time, she worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.

Zachary Schwartz, L.C.S.W. has been in the field of mental health for the past 18 years working with adults, teenagers, and families. Prior to his current full-time private practice, he gained extensive experience working as a therapist in both public and special education schools as well as mental health centers. Additionally, as a former director of a school-based mental health services organization, he contributed to the growth and development of numerous in-district counseling programs for students and families throughout northern and central New Jersey. Mr. Schwartz is a graduate of IPS and has been on the faculty for the past 3 years.​

Catherine Lawrence, MEd, LPC is a graduate of IPS and has been in private practice since 2015.  She is currently working with working with children, adolescents, adults and families. She has worked with clients in a variety of settings including in-home services and community mental health.   Additionally, to her experience in the mental health field, she has extensive experience as a teacher in the public school system.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

Dates of Course:

10/14/25, 10/28/25, 11/11/25, 11/25/25, 12/9/25, 12/23/25, 1/13/26, 1/27/26

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Latency Through Adolescents, course #5923, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [08/22/2024-08/22/2026]. Social workers completing this course receive 16 total credits including 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to the theoretical framework for dream interpretation. Students will read Sigmund Freud’s seminal work on the subject, Interpretation of Dreams in addition to current articles, to gain insight into the unconscious. Each class will focus on a different aspect of the dream-work, with the objectives of learning to distinguish between the manifest content of dreams and latent dream-thoughts; understanding that the wish-fulfilling function of dreams is not contradicted by anxiety dreams; understanding that one cannot interpret a dream with the dreamer’s associations (and learn what significant exceptions apply here); and learning that what is essential to dreams is the process of the dream-work. The instructor and students will discuss how these concepts might be understood in their own cases, with examples of their patients’ dreams explored in class. This will give participants a deeper appreciation of the defensive structure of the unconscious, and enable them, in their work, to begin to make inroads with their patients to a greater understanding of their characterological issues. Students will be required to prepare for each class by reading and formulated how the methods of interpretations would apply to their own cases.
Course Objectives:

1. Candidates will be able to define basic concepts of dream analysis.
2. Candidates will be able to demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.
3. Candidates will demonstrate an ability to examine cases to discover how dreams develop from the underlying concepts and dynamics of psychoanalysis.

Who Should Attend:
This is an intermediate course in the second year of our program.
Instructor
Anat Joseph, LCSW has been on the faculty of The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies for the past year. She began her private practice over 6 years ago, working with adolescents through adults. Prior to this, she was Treatment Director at The Millicent Fenwick House for 3 years. Before this, she was a Clinical Social Worker at Bergen Family Center for 3 years.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

Dates of course:

2/17/26, 3/03/26, 3/17/26, 3/31/26, 4/14/26, 4/28/26, 5/12/26, 5/26/26

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Dreams, Course #xxxx, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for
Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: xx-xx-xxxx to xx-xx-xxxx. Social workers completing this course receive 16 clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This course will provide mental health professionals with an introduction to psychoanalytic theories of resistance. Students will read papers written by the major theorists in the field from Freud through the present, and gain a better understanding of the development and evolution of resistance. Each class will highlight different theories regarding the development of the disorder and the clinical implications including transference, countertransference and treatment. The class will gain insight into the range of resistances, the impact on everyday functioning and how to work with these issues in therapy with their clients. The instructor and students will discuss how these resistances might unfold in their own cases and how each approach might be handled responsibly by the mental health worker. This also will give participants an increased appreciation of the complexity of human behavior. Students are required to prepare for each class by reading several papers, thinking about how these theories might be applicable to their own cases, and presenting cases to the class.
Course Objectives:

1. The candidate will examine cases to discover how a specific form of resistances develop.
2. The candidate will be able to define basic concepts of resistance.
3. The candidate will demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.

Who should attend:
This in an intermediate course is offered in the second year of our program.

Instructor:
Nicole E. Grace, L.C.S.W. is a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies and the Director of Administration. She has been in private practice since 1998, working with adults and couples. She worked at Palisades Medical Center Counseling Center from 1994 to 2004.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

Dates of course:

2/10/26, 2/24/26, 3/10/26, 3/24/26, 4/7/26, 4/21/26, 5/5/26, 5/19/26

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Psychoanalytic Technique: Appreciation of Resistance, Course #xxxx, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: xx/xx/xxxx – xx/xx/xxxx. Social workers completing this course receive 16 clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This is the second half of a survey course of the writings of Sigmund Freud. The purpose of the course is to give an idea of the breadth of Freud’s writings. In order to gain focus we will point out the major points of each paper. The papers will be covered in more detail as they are specifically addressed in later courses. Some of the important concepts to appreciate are: the unconscious (topographic theory), structure of the psyche (structural hypothesis), and the multiple contents of symptoms (over determination); symbolic meanings, character traits; libidinal drives, psychosexual stages (oral, anal, urethral, phallic, genital), psychoeconomics, infantile sexuality, centrality of the Oedipus complex. Although Freud wrote some theoretical papers (e.g. “metapsychological papers”), ultimately his writings were based on clinical experience.

Course Objectives:

1. The candidate will be able to define basic Freudian concepts including: the unconscious (topographic theory), structure of the psyche (structural hypothesis), and the multiple contents of symptoms (over determination); symbolic meanings, character traits; libidinal drives, psychosexual stages (oral, anal, urethral, phallic, genital), psychoeconomics, infantile sexuality, centrality of the Oedipus complex.
2. The candidate will demonstrate how these concepts apply to their patients through case examples.
3. The candidate will be able to give examples of the development of psychoanalytic concepts.

Who Should Attend:
This is an intermediate class in the third year of the program.

Instructors:
Mosse Burns, L.C.S.W., is a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has been in private practice since 1996. In her practice, she provides clinical services to individuals, couples, families, and groups. Practice includes working with seniors, adults, and adolescents. Prior to this, Ms. Burns worked at multiple mental health services, including SERV, Christian Health Care Center, and Mid-Bergen Mental Health Clinic.

Thomas Grace is a graduate of IPS. He worked at Jersey City Medical Center, Child and Adolescent Outpatient Behavioral Health Unit, for over 18 years. Since 2018, he has worked exclusively in his private practice, working with adults, couples, and groups.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

Dates of Course:

10/13/26, 10/27/26, 11/10/26, 11/24/26, 12/8/26, 12/22/26, 1/12/27, 1/26/27

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Readings in Freud II, course #5924, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [xx/xx/xxxx-xx/xx/xxxx]. Social workers completing this course receive 16 total credits including 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

1.  Candidates will be able to examine theories of depression and relate their understanding of these theories to their own case examples.
2. Candidates will be able to analyze the psychoanalytic literature of depression and be able to explain how this research has contributed to a better understanding of the treatment of patients struggling with depression.
3. Candidates will be able to apply their understanding of depression and be able to explain the variety of internal and external forces that can trigger depression.

Who should attend:

The target audience for this course is social workers with a minimum of an LSW and other mental health professionals with a minimum of a masters. This course is offered to candidates who have completed the first two years of the program.

Instructor:
Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. is the Dean and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that time, she worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.

Rhonda Liss, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of IPS.  She has been on the faculty for the past three years.  Currently, Ms. Liss is also a supervisor for our candidates.  She also works in a group practice in Paramus, NJ, providing individual psychotherapy/psychoanalysis to adults and adolescents.  Prior to this, she worked for the Division of Family Guidance in Hackensack, NJ.  There she was a Youth Services Counselor, providing counseling to adolescents and families in both
the Adolescent and Family Treatment program (AFT), and the Teen Reeducation
program (TREAD) which provides counseling and treatment for juvenile sex
offenders.

Brian Nandy, MA, LPC, ACS,  is a graduate of IPS and has experience with community health presentations.  He began his group practice in 2008, where he works with families, couples, and provides clinical supervision.  In addition to his group practice, he worked as a program director for a youth enrichment service at a regional hospital for thirteen years.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule:
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

Dates of Course:

2/13/24, 2/27/24, 3/12/24, 3/26/24, 4/9/24, 4/30/24, 5/14/24, 5/28/24

Depression, 5390, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/21/2023-12/21/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 16 Clinical continuing education credits.

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Course Description:
This course will provide social workers with a framework in which to make ethical decisions relating to their clinical practice. The possible legal consequences of their decision will be considered. We will discuss the NASW code of ethics and its ramifications for practice. Some of the areas to be covered will be ethical issues in maintaining and waiving confidentiality and the exceptions to privilege, the nature of boundary issue violations, the detrimental effects of dual and sexual relationships, malpractice suits, forensic appearances, and therapist obligations to a third party. Class discussion will combine assigned, selected readings with instructor and student materiel.

Course Objectives:

1. Candidates will be able to summarize several key ethical issues pertaining to clinical practice.
2. Candidates will be able to appraise how to work within a framework to maintain an ethical practice.
3. Candidates will be able to describe legal ramifications of decisions they may make in their clinical practice.

Who should attend:
This is an advanced course in the fourth year of our program.

Instructor:
Thomas Grace, PsyA. is a graduate of IPS.  He worked at Jersey City Medical Center, Child and Adolescent Outpatient Behavioral Health Unit for over 17 years.  He has a private practice working with adults, couples, groups, adolescents, and offering psychological testing.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule: This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 4 sessions.

Dates of Course:

10/8/24, 10/22/24, 11/5/24, 11/19/24

Tuition
Tuition is $157.50 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Ethics, course #5018, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [08/26/2024-08/26/2026]. Social workers completing this course receive 8 total credits including 8 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This course will provide clinicians with an understanding of psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus Complex and mental illness. Psychoanalytic case examples underlying treatment with adults will also be shared and discussed in relationship to the writings of Freud and psychoanalytic theory. Participants will gain a better understanding of the practical applications of theory in their clinical work with adults that will directly impact clinical social work practice. Students will be invited to ask questions and to share relevant clinical concerns from their own practice. Students will discuss how these clinical examples apply to theory and its application to social work in general.

Course Objectives:
1. Candidates will be able to summarize psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus Complex and mental illness.
2. Candidates will be able to describe how to apply psychoanalytic theory and its application to social work.
3. Candidates will be able to develop skills to utilize a therapeutic approach to help patients struggling with issues related to the Oedipus Complex.

Who should attend:
This is an advanced course in the fourth year of our program.

Instructors:
Margaret Debrot, LCSW has been in private practice working with older adults, adults, adolescents and children for almost 15 years. She has been on the faculty of IPS since 2010.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule: This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 4 sessions.

Dates of Course:

12/3/24*,12/17/24*,1/14/25*,1/28/25*

Tuition
Tuition is $157.50 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Oedipus in Freud, course #5920, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: [08/26/2024-08/26/2026]. Social workers completing this course receive 8 total credits including 8 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description:
This course will provide social workers with a sampling of contemporary ideas about psychoanalysis by modern thinkers to help them broaden their ideas about new developments in the field. It will contrast basic classical theory with more recent insights gained from relational theory, neuroscience, sensorimotor psychology, and trauma research. Students will read articles by both early and recent theorists that will help them develop a historic perspective on the evolving nature of psychoanalytic thinking. They will gain an appreciation of how these theoretical ideas can provide them with an increased understanding of how to work with their clients in the treatment process. Interventions will be discussed and analyzed and basic concepts will be thoroughly explored through reading and class discussion. Both instructor and student cases will be presented to illustrate how clinical work is informed by the theoretical knowledge that is presented in class. The social work practice of exploring cases through readings and case presentations is utilized. Students will be required to do assigned reading for each session.

Learning Objectives:

1. Students will be able to integrate some of the core ideas of mental life.
2. Students will achieve basic competence in trauma terminology and technique.
3. Students will be able to apply theoretical concepts discussed in class to their clinical work.

Who should attend:
This is a fourth-year course for candidates in the last year of the program.  This is a course for advanced mental health professionals.

Instructors:
Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W. is the Dean and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies since 2004. She had been in private practice since 1976, working with adults, adolescents, and children individually and in groups. Prior to that time, she worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. She is a supervisor of social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals. From 1991 to 2004, she was Co-director and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program of the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis.

Natasha Baron, M.D. is a graduate of the Institute.  She is in private practice working as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a variety of patients, from children to seniors.  She is also the director of the in-patient behavioral health unit at Englewood Hospital, Englewood, NJ.  She has been in practice for over 30 years.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule:
This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

2/25/25, 3/11/25, 3/25/25, 4/8/25, 4/29/25, 5/13/25, 5/27/25, 6/10/25

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Contemporary Theory and Trauma, Course #6155, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 01/21/2025-01/21/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 16 clinical continuing education credits.

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of how culture and biases can affect treatment and the impact that awareness brings to the therapeutic relationship.

Learning Objectives:
1. Demonstrate their understanding of their personal cultures and how these might impact the assumptions they have about their clients’ culture, race, sexual orientation and/or religion as well as other client-identified subcultures.
2. Identify the importance of maintaining an orientation of wellness and continued work in self- development in order to appreciate that each patient has the right to negotiate cultural differences that should not be influenced by the analyst’s beliefs.
3. Identify how culture, race, sexual orientation, religion, and other subcultures could be enmeshed in character traits and the implications for progress in treatment.

Who should attend:
This is a fourth-year course for candidates in the last year of the program. This is a course for advanced mental health professionals.

Instructor:
Brian Nandy, MA, LPC, ACS,  is a graduate of IPS and has experience with community health presentations.  He began his group practice in 2008, where he works with families, couples, and provides clinical supervision.  In addition to his group practice, he worked as a program director for a youth enrichment service at a regional hospital for thirteen years.

THIS COURSE WILL BE A LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR VIA ZOOM

Schedule:

This course meets every other Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:30. Classes meet for 8 sessions.

2/18/25, 3/4/25, 3/18/25, 4/1/25, 4/22/25, 5/6/25, 5/20/25, 6/3/25

Tuition
Tuition is $315 per course with a $100.00 processing fee per semester. A 50% refund will be made upon request through the first week of classes.

Multicultural Awareness in Psychoanalysis, Course #xxxx, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 00/00/0000-00/00/0000. Social workers completing this course receive 16 clinical continuing education credits.