Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
AIP is accepting applications for enrollment for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please attend one of our Open Houses for more information and submit your application by May 15th, 2025. The American Institute for Psychoanalysis has a long and distinguished history of providing exceptional training and education in the field of psychoanalysis. Established to foster a […]
Lectures
Karen Horney on Psychoanalytic Technique In 1952, shortly before her death, Karen Horney taught a course entitled “Psychoanalytic Therapy” at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Horney believed that each analyst had to develop their own way of conducting an analysis while maintaining essential elements of analytic technique. She described these as focusing Zen-like attention on […]
Applying psychoanalytic concepts in everyday life
Psychoanalysis delves deep into the human psyche to uncover unconscious motivations, desires, and conflicts that shape our thoughts and behaviors. A derivative of the belief in your capacity to grow and change throughout life, a concept developed by Dr. Karen Horney that challenged the existing psychoanalytic view at the time, is that psychoanalytic ideas can […]