The Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis (MICP&P) seeks to offer a program for Candidates that will provide training, education and research in contemporary psychoanalysis. The program strives to capture the excitement, creativity and diversity of current activity in contemporary psychoanalysis. MICP&P believes that the psychoanalytic method is unique in its ability to relieve suffering and to equip individuals to create satisfying lives. MICP&P offers in-depth study of and training in broad theoretical ideas from classical to contemporary. MICP&P devotes special emphasis to the study of attachment organization and development, self-psychological and relational psychoanalysis. Our program is particularly strong in re-examining seminal psychoanalytic concepts such as the unconscious, TRANSFERENCE and therapeutic action. The role of both old as well as new relational experiences is examined in light of contemporary research and Candidates are taught how to utilize this knowledge in the conduct of an analysis. MICP&P provides a participatory, multi-disciplinary, learner-centered environment. Both in the content of its curriculum and in its organizational process, MICP&P facilitates and encourages an atmosphere of openness, collegiality and mutual respect. MICP&P seeks to become an outstanding psychoanalytic training program. It will strive to develop excellent clinicians and contributors to the theoretical, research and clinical evolution in the field of psychoanalysis. It will strive to promote both its members’ professional growth as Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists as well as their personal development. MICP&P will provide its members a strong sense of community and expand psychoanalytic understanding in the general public.