The NPAP Training Institute evolved from pioneering seminars begun
in 1948 by Theodor Reik, a student of Sigmund Freud's and a major voice
in psychoanalysis until his death in 1969. Mindful of a legacy reaching
directly back to Freud, the Institute today offers comprehensive psycho-analytic
training using a multi-model approach, designed to prepare candidates
for the professional practice of psychoanalysis. Graduates are eligible
for full membership in the NPAP Association and Training Institute.
As members of the Training Institute, they are approved as Training
Analysts and may also apply for positions on the Institute faculty.
Upon completion of a supervision course offered to all members of the
Institute, they are qualified to supervise candidates and serve as
Control Analysts. In the democratic structure and tradition of NPAP,
all Institute members are equally eligible to present lectures and
workshops, accept appointment to Special Committees, and run for election
to Standing Committees and positions on the Board of Trustees.
NPAP’s administrative building at 150 West 13th Street also
contains classrooms, although classes are most often held throughout
New York City in the offices of instructors. Candidates from all over
the world have traveled to NPAP to receive psychoanalytic training.
Currently the Institute has over 135 candidates and more than 350 active
members (listed in the Directory section). Such a large and diversified
member-ship increases a candidate’s opportunities for collegiality
as well as choice among Training Analysts, supervisors, Control Analysts,
instructors and the like, without increasing class size beyond a seminar
atmosphere.
The Institute is separate from NPAP’s membership Association
and has its own distinctive structure, functions, and Board of Trustees.
The Institute is chartered under the Education Law of the State of
New York by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of
New York. An Absolute Charter from the New York State Board of Regents
was granted on February 24, 1967.
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