Observational Studies Program Open House for Online Students
Observational Studies Program Open House for Online Students
Saturday, April 18, 2026
9:30 am – 11:30 am ET
Location: Zoom
No CME/CE
A Two-Year Online Training Based on the Esther Bick Infant Observation Model
Program Overview
The Observational Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis provides a unique, multidisciplinary training grounded in the Infant Observation Method.by Esther Bick at the Tavistock Clinic (1948). We developed our program at the Washington School of Psychiatry (Now New WSP), and since 2022 is part of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.
Beginning in Fall 2026, a fully online track will be available, offering access to clinicians and professionals across the United States, who wish to deepen their observational and clinical skills but cannot attend in person.
“Seeing the Unseen in Clinical Work” is taught by a faculty of child, adult, couple, and family psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.”Through careful, sustained observation and reflection, students learn to identify subtle emotional and relational processes that shape child development and are detected later in clinical interaction. This experiential program develops the right mindset to work with patients of all ages including adults, families and couples.
This online program allows participans to do the 2 year observation and the option to add all of the other segments in our program: Work Discussion (0ne year), Young Child Observation (one year) and psychoanalytic papers focused on Infant obsertvation as the students go along. It provides the opportunity to students to master their own time.