Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
“Understanding
the Human Condition by Teaching and Exploring
the Psychoanalytic Visions of
Reality”
The Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute has
celebrated its 30th
Anniversary. We
have graduated well over 30 psychoanalysts and will have about 15 candidates
enrolled. Our two-year Advanced
Psychotherapy Program is strong and flourishing. Our Tillie Krug Child Analytic
Program is just beginning but is springing forth from the truly unique and long
tradition of dynamic child psychiatry in Cincinnati.
Our Extension Division has served the community well. Hundreds of mental
health professionals as well as the general public have participated in the
various offerings of the Institute’s Extension Division and other outreach
programs and along the way have benefited from the comprehensive psychoanalytic
collections of the Frederic T. Kapp Memorial Library. 
In
recent years the Institute has become a geographic center for psychoanalytic
education, for advanced psychotherapy training, and for the advancement of
psychoanalytic thought on all levels. Candidates,
APP students, and Extension Division participants are now commuting to our
facility from six neighboring cities in three states.
Thus,
through the years the Institute has developed a commitment to being an active
and responsive educational enterprise with an enduring tradition of excellence
in psychoanalytic training. The Institute, its Board of Trustees, faculty,
staff, and students, continue to balance that tradition with a striving for
intellectual dialogue within an ever enlarging circle of professional and lay
communities. These interchanges demonstrate the continuing relevance, aliveness,
and ongoing evolution of psychoanalytic thinking in the many arenas of human
experience.
In
this new millennium and closing in on thirty years of service, it seems fitting
that the faculty, graduates, candidates, other students and staff of CPI
acknowledge the unwavering guidance, voice, support, and enthusiasm of our Board
of Trustees. Throughout these years, leading citizens of the greater Cincinnati
community have served on the Board and have given their unique and diversified
collective wisdom to the vision and mission of the Institute. So many times it
has worked this way: The Board’s guidance has sharpened our focus and shaped
our task, providing a unique and vital dimension to the growth of CPI.
With
an eye towards the future and with an enduring sense of our tradition, we
especially thank all of those who have served on the Board, past and present.
MISSION
The
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
excellence in the learning, teaching, and application of psychoanalytic
knowledge. The Institute’s programs provide post-graduate education, support,
enrichment, and opportunity for growth for mental health professionals and the
larger community. Full participation in the activities of the Institute is available to
any qualified person regardless of race, color, creed, age, gender, marital
status, disability, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
A
BRIEF HISTORY
In
1973, the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute was founded and its first class of
candidates matriculated in the Analytic Training Program. CPI is one of 34
training institutes in the United States accredited by the American
Psychoanalytic Association. In 1980, construction was completed on the analytic
practice building (Cincinnati Center for Psychoanalysis) at 3001 Highland
Avenue, which also houses the Psychoanalytic Institute. An addition was built in
1987, allowing more analysts to practice in closer proximity to the training
program. The building also houses the Frederic T. Kapp Memorial Library.
From
its very beginning, the Institute’s spectrum of endeavors and educational
tasks grew and diversified while it continued to develop and provide a vigorous
psychoanalytic training program. In 1979, the Extension Division was
established, adding a forum for the dissemination of important psychoanalytic
ideas not only to mental health professionals, but to the general public as
well. The Teacher Education Program, offering courses designed to help classroom
teachers, was initiated in 1989, expanding in subsequent years as the Teacher
Education and School Services program to include courses and consultations for
school principals and counselors. In 1991 the Institute established a two-year
Advanced Psychotherapy Program for experienced clinicians interested in
enhancing their knowledge and skills. In 2000, the Tillie Krug Child Analytic
Program was established to offer training in child analysis to a community with
a rich legacy of child focused treatment.
To
better serve the community’s needs and the increasing requests for
psychoanalytic understanding of the human experience, the outreach programs of
the Institute have also grown to include a Speakers’ Bureau, the
Psychoanalysis, Literature, & the Arts series, and the Psychoanalytic Law
Link. In 1998 the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought, an interdisciplinary
group that shares a lively interest in psychoanalytic ideas and the development
of discourse around such ideas, was nurtured into being and is now a thriving
program with links to both the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and Society.
The
Institute’s reputation has grown in the community and that community, in turn,
has grown to include the tri-state region.
Therefore, the Institute now attracts candidates and students for
various educational programs from the cities of Dayton, Columbus,
Indianapolis, Lexington, Louisville and the university towns of Oxford and
Bloomington. In 1997 in response to
this development, the Institute established a Regional Development program to
explore new creative and effective ways to make the faculty’s expertise
available to its broadening constituency.
The
Institute has been enriched by the dialogues set in motion by all of these
endeavors to meet the requests and needs of the various communities it serves.
All facets of the Institute’s activities have benefited including its first
and primary charge and, indeed, the very reason for its existence: to provide
and maintain a vigorous psychoanalytic training program.
We
welcome inquiries about any of our programs.
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