Education 2 Year Program

1. 2-YEAR AND 4-YEAR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM in
EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOANALYSIS & PHENOMENOLOGY

Description Program Outline Seminars Contact

The 2-year certification program in existential psychoanalysis and phenomenology is designed for M.A./Ph.D. students or graduates in psychology, counseling, social work, philosophy, or a related field who are interested in the theoretical and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis (both traditional and existential), phenomenology, and critical philosophy (primarily of the European tradition, 18th-21st centuries). The program is a full two years, spanning 24 months in duration and should be of particular interest to practitioners who want intensive study in psychoanalysis in a program that includes competitive tuition, publishing opportunities, and a curriculum that is broader, deeper, and richer than other programs of this type. EPIS also has a 4-year program that requires additional study, clinical and research experience, and personal analysis; a student who completes the 2-year program may transfer directly into the 3rd year of the 4-year program without interruption.

Program Outline:

I. Components
A. Seminar participation and analytic essays
B. Clinical work and reports
C. Thesis (to be published by EPIS Publishing)

II. Seminar Requirement (theoretical and clinical)
A. 4 monthly core Seminars
B. 6-8 specialized Seminars
C. Monthly analytic essays on Seminar material

III. Clinical Work
A. 3 control cases with individual, dyadic, or group clients
B. Monthly written reports and consultation
C. Analytical summary of clinical work

IV. EPIS Internship
A. Theoretical or clinical
B. Written summary

V. Thesis
A. Analysis of a focused psychoanalytic problem
B. Oral defense

Seminars:

I. Core Seminars
A. Existential Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
B. Phenomenological Method and Psychoanalysis
C. European Critical Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
D. Traditional Psychoanalysis

II. Specialized Seminars
A. Cultural Criticism and Psychoanalysis
B. The Lived Body and Psychoanalysis
C. Modernism, Postmodernism and Psychoanalysis
D. French Deconstruction and Critical Philosophy
E. German Critical Philosophy
F. Advanced Existential Phenomenology
G. Structuralism, Lacan and Semiology