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The current program is based on a decade of experience, decisions made at the Bahamas Conference on Curriculum, and subsequent trials with these ideas. It includes four years of maturation theory, a history sequence consisting of three years of psychonalytic history and one year of psychoanalytic research; four years of basic theoretical concepts; and a clinical studies sequence including two years of mental hospital placement working with three or more psychotic patients and three or more years of supervised psychoanalytic practice in the Center's Referral Service, during which a final project is prepared.
In the early years the tendency of new faculty was to imitate the style of their own teachers, the senior faculty. Recently we have seen a tendency of instructors to develop teaching styles reflective of their own personalities. The overall goal remains the same: to experiment with emotional education.
The faculty of the Center consists of senior analysts who have contributed to scholarship and treatment since the fifties and sixties. Faculty additions have been made predominately from gifted graduates. The program itself was prepared by Meadow after consultation with senior faculty. Modifications take place as faculty members study the effectiveness of readings.
In the following segment, I have included the courses, by title, the current reference lists, and the ideas of the current faculty on how and why they teach the way they do. I have included faculty publications available in the journal, Modern Psychoanalysis. It is my hope that this review of a modern training program will provide the impetus for further investigations of what makes good training and how people learn to be psychoanalysts.