DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM:
Lewis Aron, Ph.D.

The New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis is designed to provide advanced education of postdoctoral mental health professionals in the theory and practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Established in 1961 for psychologists who at that time found it difficult to obtain formal training in psychoanalysis, the program was the first psychoanalytic training program sponsored by a university graduate school of arts and science. It is now the largest psychoanalytic training program in the country.

The program offers a diverse curriculum, comprising modern Freudian, interpersonal, relational, and independent orientations, and it is unique in offering comprehensive training in these various schools. Each orientation has an internationally known teaching faculty and outstanding clinical supervisors. Contemporary psychoanalysis has become increasingly pluralistic, and the postdoctoral program’s community of scholars and practitioners has made a significant contribution to the field.