_One Year Program

The Theory Sequence

Intersectionality in Psychoanalytic Practice, taught by Rossanna Echegoyen, LCSW

This course aims to widen the scope of understanding in clinical practice with people of color and intersectional identities, such as class, race, culture, gender and sexuality. By focusing on the therapist-patient dyad, transference and countertransference concepts will be enhanced through a lens of social justice, intersectionality, implicit bias, and internalized oppression.

Gender and Sexuality, taught by Sherwood McPhaul, LCSW-R

Focusing on psychodynamic thought about sexuality and gender, this course will center around readings from modern, postmodern, queer, and feminist theorists, with an emphasis on intersubjectivity. Candidates will be encouraged to share clinical material from their own clinical work as it relates to transference and countertransference.

Immigration and Intergenerational Transmission, taught by Veronica Csillag, LCSW with a seminar on Ecopsychoanalysis by guest instructor Wendy Greenspun, PhD

This course focuses on the individual and collective psychic structure, in the context of transgenerational implications of immigration. Themes of exploration will include colonialism, its demise and its heritage; the Holocaust and its aftermath; the impact of immigration on psychoanalysis; latter day refugees and migrants.

The Clinical Sequence

The Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Beginnings, taught by Julie Hyman, LCSW with guest co-instruction by Chanda Griffin, LCSW

This course will focus on the beginning of treatment, exploring the process of engaging a patient in therapy while attending to themes of identity, difference and power. How does the therapist establish a frame for the work, assess the patient, create a sense of safety, listen for the patient’s anxiety, resistances, and relationship themes? How does the therapist move from the patient’s initial concrete concerns to encouraging a sense of psychological curiosity in the patient?

The Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Elaborations, taught by Vanessa Jackson, LCSW-R

With attention to the roles of class, social context, history, and the therapist’s identity, this course will focus on ways the therapist and patient enrich the treatment process. Psychoanalytic concepts addressed include transference and countertransference; projection, introjection and containment; project identification; mutual enactments; and individual and collective trauma.

The Psychotherapeutic Relationship: Group Process and Supervision, taught by Stefan R. Zicht, PsyD.

This will be a space for peer case consultation and group process of the training experience. This module will focus on facilitating the group members’ capacities to balance theoretical commitments with personalistic participation, in the co-creation of a viable psychoanalytic process.

FACULTY

Veronica Csillag, LCSW, Veronica Csillag, LCSW is Co-Director, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; former Faculty, NYU School of Social Work, The Jewish Board. Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of several psychoanalytic papers, which were published in a variety of journals, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly among them.  She is in private practice in New York City.

 

Rossanna Echegoyen, LCSW, is Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is on the Steering Committee of the Psychoanalytic Coalition for Social Justice, Reflective Spaces/Material Places, Member-at-Large of the Division 39 Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology’s Section IX for Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility. She is on faculty at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and TIMH in New York and at NCSPP in San Francisco. Her interests are in undoing racism, community psychoanalysis, decolonization, social justice, inequality, Latino/Latinx, immigration, refugees and intersectionality.  

Wendy Greenspun, PhD, has been faculty and supervisor in Manhattan Institute’s Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis and Adelphi University’s Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Couples Therapy. She is a graduate of the Manhattan Institute’s Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis and has served as co-chair of the Curriculum Committee. She has published and presented on topics that integrate psychoanalysis with various other perspectives, including family systems theory and mindfulness. She has co-taught a course on Ecopsychoanalysis, given webinars on Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis, and has led workshops on building emotional resilience in the face of climate distress. She is on the Steering Committee of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She is in private practice in Manhattan.

Chanda D. Griffin, LCSW, is co-chair of the Multicultural Committee at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Silberman Graduate School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she teaches various clinical courses. Additionally, she provides trainings and supervision on psychoanalytic psychotherapy. A graduate of MIP’s Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis, she is in private practice in Manhattan.

Julie Hyman, LCSW is faculty and supervisor at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and faculty at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).  Julie is a member of the Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) at MIP. as well as co-chair of curriculum. She is in private practice in New York City. 

Vanessa Jackson, LCSW-R, is Founder and Director of Manhattan Institute’s One Year Program in Psychoanalysis and the Sociopolitical World, and faculty and supervisor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she received her psychoanalytic training. Vanessa is in private practice in New York City.

Sherwood McPhaul, LCSW-R, is a practicing contemporary psychoanalyst & psychotherapist in full time private practice in New York City’s East Village/Union Square area. He specializes in areas associated with sexuality/gender and multiculturalism, clinical treatment of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and trauma. In addition, he is a graduate school Clinical Professor at Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work, where he teaches Clinical Practice with Individuals & Families, and Social Justice. Sherwood is a graduate from New York University, Silver School of Social Work, and graduate of, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he currently serves as faculty in the one year psychoanalytic psychotherapy program, committee membership with MIP Committee on Race & Ethnicity, and Committee chair-person of the MIP Sexuality & Gender Initiative. 

Stefan R. Zicht, Psy.D. is a Past Co-Director, Training Analyst, Faculty and Supervisor: Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Fellow, and Former Director of the Licensure-Qualifying Program in Psychoanalysis: William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology; Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis (FABP) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA.)