In 1981, the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute launched the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy program for mental health professionals. It provides a combination of didactic classroom material along with twice-weekly clinical consultation groups. This affords each student an exceptional opportunity to apply theory to clinical work, and, also, greatly facilitates their evolution as psychotherapists. The American Psychoanalytic Association describes the program as “a model for psychoanalytic institutes across the country.”

The Educational Program

Purpose
The Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program provides mental health professionals with theoretical and clinical training in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program and former APP program graduates use their training for counseling and brief treatment applications, as well as intensive psychotherapies.

Course Description

The Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program is a two-year post-graduate training program combining classroom education and direct clinical consultation groups. Classes meet from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Monday evenings during the academic year in a hybrid-format at the Institute, 7700 Clayton Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63117, or online (Zoom). Each student also meets twice weekly for small group consultations of their own clinical cases. Supervisors offer a variety of current psychoanalytic clinical perspectives. Faculty and supervisors are experienced psychoanalysts affiliated with the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.

Curriculum

The foundation for the Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Curriculum consists of courses in human development across the lifespan, infancy through adulthood, as well as classes on basic theory and clinical technique. Topics include:

NORMAL DEVELOPMENT

• Infancy and the early years
• Latency and adolescence
• Adulthood, and aging

 

PSYCHODYNAMIC CONCEPTS and THEORIES

• Introduction to psychoanalytic theory
• Perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic psychology: ego psychology, object relations theory, and self-psychology

 

CLINICAL TECHNIQUE

• Evaluation, Diagnosis, Treatment Plans
• Beginning Phase, Middle Phase, Termination
• Theory and Process of Therapy

 

CLINICAL DISORDERS

• Anxiety, Affective Disorders
• Personality Disorders & Character Problems
• Borderline & Narcissistic Disorders

 

SPECIAL TOPICS

• Dreams
• Addictions
• Parent Work in Child Treatment
• Neuroscience
• Brief Dynamic Treatment Models
• Trauma and Dissociative Disorders
• Ethics
• Suicide
• Diversity
• Research: Efficacy & Effectiveness of Psychodynamic Treatment
• Emerging Adulthood
• How Child and Adolescent Training Informs Adult Treatment

 

Credit Hours

Credit may be arranged through some university programs. Continuing education credits are available for MDs, PhDs, LPCs, and LCSWs.

This unique program is open to students and graduates of accredited programs such as psychology, psychiatry, social work, psychiatric or hospice nursing, pastoral or educational counseling.

How to Apply

Online Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program applications are here: Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Application

Please see below for tuition deadline details.

Complete the online application, and submit electronically or print and mail to:

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute

7700 Clayton Road, Suite 200

St. Louis, MO  63117

Questions?  Please email Program Director, Becky Pastor, at Becky.Pastor@gmail.com or email Pamela Luttrell at office@stlpi.org.

 

Tuition and Financial Assistance

Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program 2025-2026 tuition rates below are per year for the two-year program. Tuition is subject to change annually. (Deadlines end at Midnight on each respective day).

Early Tuition Rate $3,431 (Application due by April 30, 2025)

Regular Tuition Rate $3,606 (Application due by June 30, 2025)

Late Tuition Rate $3,864  (Application due by August 30, 2025)

 

NEW Candidate applications due by 4/30 (for early tuition rate)

NEW Candidate application due by 6/30 (for regular tuition rate)

*Any applications received after 6/30 will be subject to the late tuition rate.

Note: Tuition rates are determined by application date, not acceptance date.

 

CURRENT Candidate registrations due by 4/30 (for early tuition rate)

CURRENT Candidate registrations due by 6/30 (for regular tuition rate)

 

NEW APP student applications due by 4/30 (for early tuition rate)

NEW APP student application due by 6/30 (for regular tuition rate)

*Any new APP student applications received after 6/30 will be subject to the late tuition rate.

Note: Tuition rates are determined by application date, not acceptance date.

Financial assistance, in the form of scholarships, is available from the Institute. The Institute’s Scholarship committee meets twice. Applicants requesting scholarships for the first round should submit their scholarship application by April 18, 2025. The second-round applications are due June 20, 2025.

A link to the Scholarship application can be found at the end of the online Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program application here: Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Application

You can also visit that page by clicking Here.

REFUND SCHEDULE

St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Course Announcement Offered by the Child Adolescent Committee 

Clinical Fundamentals Course and Case Conference: Adult, Child, Adolescent and Parent-Work in Treatment

Beginning January 5, 2024

On the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Fridays of the month at 12 pm thru 1 pm CST a free, remote, year round class is provided for mental health graduate students, clinicians new to the mental health field, STLPI Schiele Clinic clinicians and graduates, current Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program students/graduates that are interested in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach to treatment of adults, children adolescents, and parent work. As long as one is proficient in English and can attend remote classes consistently, they may attend from any geographical location in the world.

Course Description:

In this Clinical Fundamentals Course and Case Conference the psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach is the major lens through which participants will learn to view, consider and discuss all case material presented. During class discussions vignettes and case material are meant to support the understanding of what is present and ever evolving within and between the clinician and patient/family relationships taking place within the treatment. Participants will practice psychoanalytic listening, considering how one’s mind works. Participants will come to see through case material how child analytic training can enhance and inform the treatment of adults. Various concepts as they arise in the clinical material presented for each session will be considered, such as transference, counter-transference, projection, projective identification, fantasy, the unconscious, rupture and repair and so on. Developmental stages, intergenerational family relational patterns, world issues, environmental issues, biology, culture, and various circumstances throughout the life span are considered as participants listen to clinical material.

Case Conference Description:

On 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month during the case conference portion, participants will take turns presenting their own cases to the group, clinical feedback from peers will be supported and encouraged on cases, along with consideration of what is occurring in the therapeutic process. Participants will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in STLPI classes and programs on a clinical level in group discussion with their colleagues. This is also an opportunity to learn how to gather information for an initial intake, take a patient history, and discuss diagnostic formulation. The taking of process notes will also be taught. Participants will learn to discuss clinical material, which will remain a priority during all classes.

Assignments:

Some highly recommended assignments will be provided upon acceptance to the class. The reading assignments are not required. However, when reading assignments are completed participants will notice a significant shift in the ability to learn from the clinical material provided during class, ability to participate in discussion and an increased depth in consideration of the psychodynamic-psychoanalytic approach.

***Please feel free to distribute widely and share with anyone that may be eligible and interested. For further questions or to attend this remote course, please contact Tina Marie Dale at:  Tinamdale@icloud.com

 

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