Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) (PANY)

The Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) is a psychoanalytic training and treatment organization in Manhattan, affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health ^[7][1]. It traces its origins to a psychoanalytic training center founded in 1949 at the Long Island College of Medicine, and took its present name in 2019 following the 2017 merger of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE) with the older society also called PANY ^[8][9]. The organization operates training programs in adult and child and adolescent psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and shorter introductory and fellowship programs, together with a reduced-fee consultation and treatment service ^[10][11].

History

• 1949 — Founding of a psychoanalytic training center, or "Division of Psychoanalytic Medicine," for psychoanalytic training and residency teaching at the Long Island College of Medicine, with 11 members of the original faculty and 8 candidates in the first class ^[8].
• 1950 — The college was taken over by New York State and renamed the State University at Downstate Medical Center; according to the institute, the resulting "Psychoanalytic Institute and Clinic at Downstate Medical Center" was the first state-supported psychoanalytic institute in the United States ^[8].
• 1954 — The Psychoanalytic Institute at the State University Medical Center was approved by the Board of Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) as a fully accredited training facility in psychoanalysis ^[8].
• 1955 — The Psychoanalytic Association of New York was established as an organization of psychoanalysts, a component society of APsaA and an affiliated society of the Downstate Institute; it has hosted monthly scientific meetings since the 1950s ^[8].
• 1979 — The Downstate Institute moved to NYU Medical Center and, under a new affiliation agreement, was renamed the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute; classes were held at Bellevue and institute faculty took part in residency training ^[8].
• 2011 — A new free-standing affiliation agreement with NYU brought a further renaming to the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE), which became financially and legally independent with its own educational charter from New York State ^[8].
• 2017 — IPE and PANY merged, formalizing the partnership of the institute and its society ^[8][9].
• 2019 — IPE was renamed the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, retaining the NYU Langone Health affiliation, and the institute and its Postgraduate Society relaunched with a new website ^[8][9].

At the time of the 2019 renaming, the institute described its component parts as The Institute at PANY, The Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, The Postgraduate Society, The Outreach Program, The Fellowship, The Philadelphia Study Group, and The Distance Learning Program ^[9]. PANY faculty have served as psychotherapy supervisors and instructors within the NYU Department of Psychiatry and in medical student electives, and the institute states it has offered courtesy consultation and referral for NYU psychiatric residents and fellows since the early 1980s ^[12].

In 2018 the institute convened a task force on session frequency to reconsider its long-standing requirement, in place since 1949, that candidates see analytic patients four to five times weekly; the then-Director and a past Director wrote in 2019 that the review led to a policy change while continuing to encourage higher frequencies ^[13].

Training programs

• Adult Psychoanalytic Training — an intensive program combining seminars in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis requiring four years of coursework, supervised psychoanalytic treatment of patients, and a personal psychoanalysis ^[10][5].
• Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis — two years of weekly classes across three trimesters per year, integrated with the adult program; graduates are eligible for certification as child and adolescent analysts by the American Board of Psychoanalysis ^[14].
• Licensed Psychoanalyst (LP) track — a licensure-qualifying route for clinicians whose degree or license does not permit psychoanalytic practice, including LMHC, LMFT and LCAT holders, LMSWs, and internationally trained physicians; LP candidates train in the adult program ^[10][15][16].
• Academic Associate program — psychoanalytic education for non-clinical professionals such as academics, attorneys, artists, clergy, non-psychiatric physicians and business professionals, who attend the same classes as clinical candidates except for psychoanalytic case work ^[10][15].
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training — a two-year post-graduate program of theoretical and clinical seminars, continuous case seminars, weekly individualized supervision, and personal treatment, leading to a certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ^[10][2].
• Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Year: Bridge to Psychoanalytic Training — a one-year, 25-week course for licensed mental health professionals combining didactic material and clinical case discussion ^[10][16].
• Fellowship in Psychoanalysis — a one-year program of monthly Tuesday evening seminars plus monthly meetings with an assigned psychoanalyst mentor; at least eight mentorship meetings are required for the certificate of completion, and the fellowship carries no salary, stipend, or supervised clinical component ^[10][6].
• Prelude to Training — a 16-session Saturday program for psychiatry residents, graduate students and early-career clinicians, including a six-week introductory course on theory and technique and the option of two mentoring sessions ^[17][3].
• Distance Learning — online classes in psychoanalytic psychotherapy offered to clinicians in Korea since 2013 and to a small number in Japan since 2017, conducted live with English/Korean translation ^[10].
• Referral for Supervision — individual and group supervision arranged for licensed clinicians and independent practitioners in the community ^[10].

Adult psychoanalytic coursework is organized into parallel theory, development and technique sequences over four years, interwoven with continuous case seminars, a writing sequence, and special topics such as ethics, dreams, the use of medication, neurobiology, sex and gender, and psychoanalysis and technology ^[18]. The theory sequence covers Freud’s topographic and structural models, ego psychology and modern conflict theory, Kleinian theory and British object relations, American relational theory, self psychology, and attachment theory; the institute states that it is not aligned with any single psychoanalytic school ^[18][5]. The psychodynamic psychotherapy curriculum comprises courses in technique, psychodynamic theory, psychopathology, assessment, development, advanced theory, and continuous case seminars ^[19][2].

The at-a-glance program timeline gives the adult psychoanalysis, child and adolescent psychoanalysis, and licensed psychoanalyst programs as taking six or more years, the Academic Associate program four years, and the psychodynamic psychotherapy program two years ^[15]. Classes and events are held at One Park Avenue (at 33rd Street), 8th Floor, in the NYU Langone Health Department of Psychiatry, on Saturdays and Monday or Tuesday evenings depending on the program ^[10][16]. For the 2026–27 academic year the institute stated that instruction would be delivered through multiple modalities, with in-person attendance required for the psychoanalytic program and about one third of psychotherapy program classes ^[20].

Admissions

• Adult psychoanalytic program — open to clinicians holding a terminal degree in their field: MD psychiatrists and psychiatry residents, PhD and PsyD clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and LCSW/DSW clinical social workers, as well as applicants entering the licensed psychoanalyst track ^[5].
• Experience requirements — all applicants must document 3,000 hours of clinical experience and either 60 post-master’s hours of psychodynamic psychotherapy supervision plus 60 post-master’s hours of psychodynamically oriented courses and clinical seminars, or a two-year organized post-master’s psychodynamic psychotherapy program including supervised clinical experience ^[5].
• Personal analysis — candidates are required to be in a personal psychoanalysis with a training analyst at the start of training, conducted at least four times weekly and expected to continue for the majority of training; fees are arranged privately between candidate and analyst ^[5].
• Child and adolescent program — open to graduates and candidates of institutes affiliated with APsaA, the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education, or the International Psychoanalytical Association who have psychotherapy experience with children or adolescents, and to PANY adult candidates applying concurrently ^[14].
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy program — for licensed and professionally insured mental health practitioners currently practicing psychotherapy; psychiatric residents and fellows may be eligible, and LMSWs are directed to the Prelude program ^[2].
• Prelude to Training — open to clinicians and clinical graduate students at all levels; licensure is not required, but study or practice in the mental health field is, and in-person capacity is limited to 24 ^[3].

Application deadlines are given as May 15 for the psychoanalytic, child and adolescent, Academic Associate and licensed psychoanalyst programs, June 1 for the psychodynamic psychotherapy program and fellowship, and September 1 for Prelude to Training ^{[5][2][15][3]}. Applications to the psychoanalytic program are supplemented by interviews with two or three faculty members, and each admitted candidate is assigned a Student Progression Committee advisor for the duration of training ^[5]. The institute states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression in its admissions and educational policies ^[8].

Tuition and fees

• Application fee — $150, non-refundable, for the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic psychotherapy and fellowship programs ^[5][2][6].
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy program — annual tuition of $3,300, payable in installments, as listed on the program page; supervision is $50 per session paid directly to the supervisor, and trainees are charged $150 annually for access to the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing database unless they have access by other means ^[2].
• Child and adolescent program — annual tuition of $800, with supervision fees arranged with and paid directly to the supervising analyst ^[14].
• Prelude to Training — program series fees of $580 for mental health professionals, $465 for non-NYU psychiatry residents and $325 for graduate students in mental health fields, as listed alongside the 2026–27 program schedule; residents and fellows in the NYU Department of Psychiatry may attend at no charge ^[17][3].
• Consultation and treatment service — a $50 application fee, waived for members of the NYU community ^[11].

The institute notes that fees are subject to change, and that reduced fees for personal psychotherapy and psychoanalysis may be requested by psychotherapy trainees ^[2].

Clinical services

PANY’s Psychoanalytic Consultation and Treatment Service offers reduced-fee psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and children in the New York metropolitan area, with most treatments conducted by clinical trainees in advanced training at the institute ^[11]. Applicants complete a written application, a brief telephone screening and an in-person consultation; beyond up to three consultation visits covered by the application fee, fees are agreed between patient and therapist with regard to individual financial circumstances ^[11].

• Treatment takes place in therapists’ private offices in the greater New York City area rather than at the institute’s administrative offices and classrooms ^[11].
• Subject to availability, treatment is offered in Spanish, French, German, Urdu, Arabic and Korean ^[11].
• Most therapists are not in-network insurance providers; a limited number accept Medicare and none accept Medicaid ^[11].
• Medication management is not offered as a stand-alone service, and the service does not provide emergency or immediate care ^[11].
• A separate Faculty Referral Service directs prospective patients to faculty members in private practice, whose fees are set by the clinician ^[21][11].

The institute states that its Consultation and Treatment Service exists to provide affordable and accessible psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to underserved members of the community ^[8]. Its donation page reports more than 1,000 clinicians trained and more than 3,000 patient consultations, alongside 165 faculty members and six training programs ^[22]; the online faculty directory listed 105 searchable faculty entries ^[21].

Affiliations and accreditation

• NYU Grossman School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and NYU Langone Health — affiliate relationship maintained since 1979 ^[7][12]
• American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) — member society, and APsaA-approved training institute ^[8][7]
• American Association for Psychoanalytic Education (AAPE) — member institute, with PANY faculty on its Board of Directors ^[7]
• International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) — the Institute at PANY is an IPA Regional Training Institute, whose graduates are put forward to the IPA’s Board of Representatives for Direct Membership ^[7]
• American Board of Psychoanalysis (ABPsa) — PANY faculty serve as founders and board members; child and adolescent program graduates are eligible for ABPsa certification ^[7][14]
• New York State Education Department (NYSED) — the Institute at PANY is designated a licensure-qualifying program for psychoanalysis, and is an approved continuing education provider for licensed social workers (#SW-0124), psychologists (#PSY-0112), psychoanalysts (#P0064) and mental health counselors (#MHC-0304) ^[10][3]
• Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) — continuing medical education is provided through joint providership with the American Psychoanalytic Association, which is ACCME-accredited ^[2][3]
• Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — child and adolescent analytic classes are held jointly with candidates and faculty from these institutes ^[7][14]

Under the joint arrangement, child and adolescent analytic education classes are conducted in conjunction with the child and adolescent divisions of the Columbia center, covering theory and technique, psychopathology, and continuous case seminars ^[7]. Graduation from PANY’s adult psychoanalytic program fulfills the psychoanalytic education requirements for candidates to sit for the New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst examination ^[10]; state licensure as a psychoanalyst additionally requires at least 1,500 clock hours of supervised experience in an acceptable setting, of which not fewer than 750 hours must involve direct client contact ^[23].

Governance

The organization is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit ^[8][22]. Writing in February 2019, David Frank, MD, was identified as Director of PANY and Michael Singer, DO, as past Director ^[13]; a July 2019 institute statement additionally identified Carmela Perez, PhD as Education Committee Chair, Herbert Stein, MD as Graduate Society Committee Chair, and Barry Rand, MD as Curriculum Committee Chair ^[24]. Curriculum oversight for the adult program rests with two committees, one responsible for curricular content and one for execution and candidate feedback, while candidate progress is reviewed by the Student Progression Committee ^[18][5]. In 2019 the institute issued a statement supporting the American Psychoanalytic Association’s apology to the LGBTQ+ community, made on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising ^[24].

Events and publications

PANY holds public and professional events including memorial lectures, seminars, panel discussions, open houses, scientific meetings and clinical presentations ^[1][25]. Named lecture series include the C. Philip Wilson, MD Memorial Lecture and the Marianne Goldberger Memorial Lecture ^[1][25]. The Graduate Society Committee organizes scientific meetings for which continuing medical education credit is available, and the institute publishes a Graduate Society Bulletin (earlier the Postgraduate Society Bulletin) and an "Insights" blog carrying faculty writing ^[24][26][6].