Psychoanalytic Training
Our Approach
Blanton-Peale offers a multi-modal approach to psychoanalytic training that encompasses classical to contemporary perspectives. Blanton-Peale welcomes anyone with a master’s degree who is interested in psychoanalytic training. Applicants to the program come from a broad range of backgrounds, including the traditional mental health disciplines of psychology, social work, and medicine, as well as religion, education, the arts, humanities, and law.
The Program, modeled on traditional psychoanalytic training, consists of three components: which operate in accordance with The American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis (ABAP) core competencies.
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Comprehensive course work, which can be completed in four years
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Clinical Experience under supervision
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The candidate’s own experience of psychoanalysis.
Enriching. Empowering. Exceptional.
Blanton-Peale Institute has a rich history in psychoanalysis, tracing back to Sigmund Freud. One of its founders Dr. Smiley Blanton was a psychiatrist who underwent analysis with Freud for over ten years. Upon which he reflects in Diary of my analysis with Sigmund Freud (Blanton, S., 1971).
The first Psychoanalytic Training Program began in New York City in the 1960s. When New York recognized psychoanalysis and established the license for the profession, Blanton-Peale became the first Institute in New York State to become registered with the New York Department of Education to offer a licensure psychoanalytic training. Our training process is robust and contextual, incorporating the best coursework and clinical experiences for psychoanalytic practice in contemporary settings.
With extensive experience and a clinical presence in the city center, our program offers candidates a thorough training experience, featuring faculty from NYC, Italy, France, Brazil, Portugal, Austria, and the UK. Blanton-Peale is also a registered Office of Mental Health (OMH) licensed counseling center that provides thousands of psychotherapy sessions monthly, ensuring candidates in training have an ideal clinical environment. This setting combines working with diverse populations while fulfilling the required hours in an approved location for New York State license applications.
At Blanton-Peale Institute, we foster a diverse, collegial, and supportive atmosphere where our candidates receive an education that remains grounded in classical psychoanalytic theory while simultaneously affording exposure to all major psychoanalytic schools of thought. Consistent with the core values of psychoanalytic training, each candidate follows our academic curriculum, receives clinical supervision, and experiences personal psychoanalysis. Our mission is to encourage and support the development of exceptional psychoanalytic praxis.
Training Tracks
There are three Training Tracks in the Blanton-Peale Psychoanalytic Training Program. The course work and personal psychoanalysis components are the same for all tracks. Choosing a track will depend on the background and previous training of the candidate.
The Already-Licensed Track
Designed for those who license contains psychoanalysis in the scope of practice. In New York State this includes LP, LCSW, PhD or PsyD in Psychology, MD, NP, and PA. Applicants from outside New York State should speak with the Director to discuss considerations for the jurisdiction in which the applicant lives and/or will be practicing.
The LCSW Track
Designed for those who hold an LMSW license or an MSW degree with a New York State-issued Limited Permit, and want to become an LCSW. Since these residents may not practice independently, they will work with patients at the Blanton-Peale Counseling Center under the supervision of an LCSW.
The LP Track (New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst)
Designed for those who will sit for the New York State License in Psychoanalysis (LP). Entrance requires a master’s degree in any discipline from a recognized institution of higher learning. Anyone who is either unlicensed or who holds a New York State license that does not include psychoanalysis in its scope of practice (LCAT, LMHC, LMFT) must train in this track. Students practice under psychoanalytic supervision. Students with a master’s degree from another country should speak with the Director.
