The San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute provides two psychoanalytic training programs for qualified mental health clinicians. One includes comprehensive education and clinical training in adult psychoanalysis and in child and adolescent analysis, as well as a non-clinical psychoanalytic academic program. The other offers education and advanced clinical training in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
 
As a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, SDPSI is accredited by the California Medical Association and the California Psychological Association. This institution has received approval to operate from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Bureau. The Bureau has determined that this institution’s operational plan satisfies the minimum standards listed in Education Code section 94915(b).