PPTP is an excellent opportunity for professionals and graduate students within the fields of psychiatry, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, and counseling to deepen and enrich their therapeutic knowledge and skills. Come to this informal gathering with current and prior students, committee chairs, and faculty to hear details about our two-year program content, requirements and application process.

2026-2027 Classes Offered

YEAR ONE:

• Analytic Listening
• Evolving Psychoanalytic Concepts
• Attachment Theory
• Trauma Through the Eyes of Addiction: What Psychoanalytic Thought Has to Say
• Object Relations
• Case Conference

YEAR TWO:

• Losing Knowledge
• Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Gender, Race, Sexuality & Culture
• Surface to Depth or Depth to Surface: Introduction to American Ego & Kleinian Theory
• Psychoanalytic Perspective on Gender, Race, Sexuality & Culture Relational Psychoanalysis Dreams
• Case Conference

2026-2027 Meeting Locations - To Be Determined

2026-2027 Dates are final as of April 10, 2026

Fall: 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2, 10/9, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20

Winter: 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5

Spring: 3/12, 3/19, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21

2026-2027 Open House

 May 17, 2026, from 3:00 - 4:00 pm at the MPSI Psychotherapy Center, Carriage House

104 West Franklin Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55404

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Downloadable Information for students:

PPTP Student Handbook 

PPTP Supervisor List

Supervision form to submit hours for Certificate

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