title: "I write to know what I think": a four-year writing curriculum.
abstract: The four-year writing curriculum of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research has as its main objective to teach candidates to learn about analysis through writing. Learning to write about analyses ultimately entails learning to clarify and then express how one thinks and functions as an analyst. Since its inception ten years ago, the program has evolved into its current structure, a stepwise approach through the years of candidate training based on a didactic method called "layering." For each level of the course, candidates' typical writing difficulties are examined, and examples given of write-ups and how they were used in teaching. The essential role of the faculty experience is also described.
authors.affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College, and Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, NY, USA. elgl29@gmail.com
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lister
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kravis
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sandberg
authors.forename: Jeffrey K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Halpern
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Cabaniss
authors.forename: Meriamne B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing