The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies (IPS) and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies (IPPS) are postgraduate training institutions with complementary educational goals.  Since 1986, they have provided parallel and mutually enhancing training tracks for Bay Area clinicians interested in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Both programs are dedicated to examining the dynamic and creative dialogue among different schools of contemporary psychoanalysis and facilitating a continuing open enquiry into the best means to understand and work with the human mind.