Now accepting applications for our Fall 2026 class.
Application deadline is April 15, 2026.
NOBPC offers a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program designed for mental health professionals in clinical practice who want to enhance their theoretical understanding of psychoanalytic principles and improve their skill in conducting intensive psychotherapy. Our program includes classes in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory related to the process of intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychopathology, coordinated with clinical case conferences. All applicants must be licensed in their state of residence and must carry professional liability insurance.
The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program is a two-year program that will begin in September 2026. The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program is a stand-alone program; it is not a component of the training program for analytic candidates.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are those who have attained a M.S.W., D.S.W., L.P.C., L.M.F.T, D.M.H., M.S. in psychiatric nursing, Psy.D., Ed.D., or Ph.D. in psychology. Eligible applicants must be licensed, professionally insured and practicing.
Graduates of a medical school approved by the American Medical Association will be eligible after satisfactory completion of the second year of psychiatric training.
The Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation or physical disability.
Questions concerning the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program and the application procedure can be directed to the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center at (504) 899-5815 or email to nobpcenter@gmail.com. Early application is recommended.
Application for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy training at NOBPC is divided into three major areas:
Didactic curriculum consists of 26 (90-minute) classes each academic year alternating weeks between theory/technique classes and clinical case material. Classes will meet once a week in the evening. Fellows are required to complete all courses and seminars outlined in the curriculum with grades of satisfactory or above and attendance of no less than 80% in each course.
Consultation on two training cases with a different consultant for each. The first consultant should be chosen before classes start, and the first training case should start within the first month of the academic year, at a minimum frequency of once per week, selected in consultation with the consultant. Meetings with a second consultant should begin by April 1 in the first year so that this second consulting pair can review prospective training cases together. The second case should be chosen by the end of the coursework in the first year. Consultations should continue throughout the summer between the first and second years. As much time as possible should be spent meeting with patients at a frequency greater than once weekly. See the Graduation Progression sidebar for full requirements.
In order to enhance the capacity to conceptualize clinical process, each fellow is required to write-up the progression of their case(s) in consultation. The case summary write-ups are submitted to your consultant at six (6) month intervals.
Consultants are chosen from Center faculty. Fees are arranged on an individual basis by the fellow and the consultant. Consultation is required in order to adequately participate in clinical case conferences and as a means of evaluating each fellows’ development as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.
Personal Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis concurrent with the program. Fellows are required to be in personal psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis while they are seeing training cases in order to increase sensitivity to the workings of unconscious forces and to begin to free the participant from personality conflicts that might impede the development of psychotherapeutic competence. The therapy must be a minimum of once per week, preferably with multiple sessions per week with a member of NOBPC faculty, or if an individual is already in an ongoing therapy with a graduate of an APSA institute other than NOBPC, this therapist may be accepted as the training therapist at the discretion of the Psychoanalytic Education Committee. The Fellow’s personal therapy must begin prior to the onset of classes. See the Graduation Progression sidebar for full requirements.