IPPS provides an education for clinicians who are already licensed and interested in developing a psychoanalytic framework for a more broadly based psychotherapeutic approach, including an integrated understanding of other forms of dynamic psychotherapy.

In the fall of 2005, the program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy will be enhanced by an affiliation with the Integrative Psychotherapy Training Program (IPTP), developed by Dr. Mardi Horowitz, a member and analyst at IPS, and his colleagues at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry. A two year program for licensed mental health professionals, it will examine interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and short-term dynamic therapies from a psychoanalytic perspective, as well as traditional long-term intensive dynamic psychotherapy.

Courses will include a weekly didactic and a case conference on Wednesday evenings. Points of integration and differentiation between various approaches will be highlighted in discussions presented by faculty members who hold different points of view. These sessions will be taught by a core group of faculty who will provide a particularly rich interactive environment. Additional electives providing a thorough and systematic grounding in the psychoanalytic foundation will be offered.