Training at the Psychoanalytic Center of California

The training at PCC focuses on the unconscious core of the personality and explores the infantile anxieties and defenses that shape behavior and relations with the self and others. The elemental contributions of Freud, Klein and Bion structure the foundation of PCC’s British Object Relations approach.  Emphasis on analysis of primitive mental states is supported by year-long intensive courses in the Tavistock method of Infant Observation, in the original work of Freud, Klein’s major papers and in the contemporary Kleinian and Object Relations developments.  Bion’s theories of thinking form a focal center of study.