The Institute’s intensive four-to-six-year program provides rigorous training in the theoretical concepts and methods of the psychoanalytic treatment of adults from the Interpersonal Perspective. Candidates with mental health backgrounds and those in the Licensure-Qualifying Program take classes together. There is additional coursework for those in the LQP.

This innovative and intensive three-year program presents a pluralistic approach to the psychodynamic understanding and treatment of children, adolescents, and their families. It is designed to provide comprehensive preparation for treating young people from infancy through late adolescence. The program’s Interpersonal perspective, with its emphasis on the familial and cultural contexts within which children develop, is enriched by ideas from the classical and relational schools.

Theory and clinical casework are used to explore disordered eating issues, body image, affect regulation, substance addiction, relationships, exercise and internet usage.

EDCAS RECAST will be held every other Friday from 2:00 – 4:00pm during the 2025/26 academic year. The focus will be on presenting and discussing clinical material to illuminate various topics of interest with one to two articles of reading for each meeting.

In IPPP, students will deepen their clinical work and practice applying new theoretical concepts to clinical situations. Through coursework, clinical case seminars, individual consultation and peer experience, clinicians will learn to approach their work from a psychodynamic sensibility.

Through coursework, clinical case seminars and a collegial peer experience, clinicians will learn to approach their work with an increasingly sophisticated psychodynamic sensibility.

A special topics course for advanced clinicians who wish to deepen their clinical work. Currently, the topic is “Luminaries of the Interpersonal Tradition”.

We invite you to join the one-year online (over Zoom) interactive program with translation into Ukrainian.

CTTEP emphasizes Interpersonal Psychoanalytic-Systemic Couples Therapy, while including additional psychoanalytic-systemic points of view.

The program is focused on expanding and deepening one’s experience of treating children and adolescents within an Interpersonal and Relational framework. Each month distinguished faculty members from William Alanson White Institute will present on a variety of contemporary clinical topics and case material. This program is designed to enhance participants’ clinical skills and intellectual understanding of psychodynamic psychotherapy of children and adolescents.

This training program offers a comprehensive externship of 20hrs/week. Externs gain clinical experience seeing 2-3 patients in individual psychotherapy from an Interpersonal perspective, and have substantial contact with parents and schools (when indicated). Externs do a minimum of three psychoeducational evaluations, and there is weekly individual and group supervision.

Candidates present their psychoanalytic and/or psychotherapy cases during this 90-minute weekly Clinical Education Meeting. Attendees–who include faculty, graduates, candidates in analytic training, and students in our psychotherapy programs–are encouraged to question, explore, and deepen the clinical material. During some of the meetings, faculty and, at times, outside speakers, present scientific papers that typically integrate theory and technique.

The Low Cost Psychotherapy Supervision Service offers a unique opportunity for New York State licensed mental health professionals in private practice to receive supervision from an experienced graduate of the William Alanson White Institute who works in the Interpersonal-Relational tradition.