Psychoanalytic education has been offered in Denver since 1956. Until 1969 the Denver Training Center operated under the auspices of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis was granted provisional status by the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1969 and was recognized as an Approved Institute in 1972. In 1985 The Institute began offering a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic training. The Institute is a nonprofit corporation for which the Faculty serves as the Board of Trustees. It is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis is a community of psychoanalysts whose goals are to provide education in psychoanalytic thinking and treatment techniques, to advance scholarship and research, and to encourage application of psychoanalytic knowledge to related fields. The Institute expects that trainees, faculty and those involved in treatment, will participate in activities related to evaluation and research.

The field of psychoanalysis has continually been informed and expanded by challenges from work in developmental psychology, neuro-psychology, and psychopharmacology. Psychoanalytic understanding of development and the theory of psychopathology provide a basis for making informed choices about treatment goals and techniques. In the face of modern-day pressures for ameliorating emotional suffering, the psychoanalytically educated clinician is well equipped to make effective clinical interventions.

At the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, qualified professionals may pursue full training in adult psychoanalysis and/or child & adolescent psychoanalysis. Two-year training programs in adult or child & adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy are available.

The Psychoanalytic Clinic provides referrals for supervised analyses by candidates to adults, children, and adolescents who cannot afford fess for private psychoanalysis. The Clinic is one source of analytic cases for candidates under supervision.

In conjunction with the Denver Psychoanalytic Society, The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis sponsors a two-year Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program, continuing education coursework, and an evening salon series. For psychiatric residents and child fellows, there is an elective psychoanalytic mentorship program. Similar programs are being developed for graduate students in other disciplines.

Ethical Standards
The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis embraces a policy of nondiscrimination in relation to gender, race, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation.

All members of the faculty agree to observe and adhere to the principles of ethics as set forth by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. Similarly, upon enrolling in training programs offered by and/or sponsored by the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, all students are required to observe and adhere to these ethical principles. In addition, it is expected that faculty and students will follow the ethical guidelines set forth by the discipline to which each is professionally identified and maintains membership, e.g.: psychology, psychiatry, social work, psychiatric nursing, etc.

Location

The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis is located on the campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in the CPH (former Colorado Psychiatric Hospital) building at 8th and Bellaire (Room 2G07B).  We are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and will be moving to the Fitzsimons Campus when the new site is ready.