The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Affliliation with Mount Sinai School of Medicine

The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine signed an affiliation agreement in 2004. This affiliation provides for NYPSI participation in the Dept of Psychiatry’s Executive Education Committee and the Admissions Committee. The NYPSI also leads and provides much of the instruction in psychodynamic psychotherapy training for the Mt. Sinai Psychiatry residency. This includes classroom instruction, continuous case seminars and individual supervision of psychotherapy treatments. The NYPSI also plans to contribute to the Child Psychiatry program.

The Mt. Sinai Dept of Psychiatry, which already has a strong research and biological psychiatry component, will now provide an enriched psychodynamic curriculum as well. In addition, psychoanalytic training will be facilitated for Mt. Sinai residents by the identification of residency applicants with a strong interest in psychoanalytic training and by the Psychiatry Dept.’s flexibility, which will allow residents to begin psychoanalytic training during their PGY 4 year.

In addition to the direct education component of the affiliation, The NYPSI and The Mt. Sinai School of Medicine plan for joint research projects in the Dept of Psychiatry and the Dept of Psychology.