Re: what classes do you have to take to become a psychoanalyst

Dear Jason,

It's a long hard road to become a psychoanalyst, very expensive and not 
one I'd personally recommend.   I believe you can get better therapeutic 
results in less than half the time by different and less antiquated 
methods.  
However, to answer your question, the Boston Graduate School of 
Psychoanalysis    bgsp@bgsp.edu   offers a course of study over four 
years.  This course is to be taken together with having personal 
psychonalysis yourself for (usually) six to eight years.  I am not sure, 
but the College's title seems to say you already have to be a graduate in 
some other discipline before you can start with them.  I surfed their site 
to find out what, but the information given was not clear.
In Ireland you can become a psychoanalyst in around eight years, including 
the time spent on personal work.  There are a lot of different subjects to 
learn in the course, and these are a bit different in different countries, 
and maybe also in different States of the US, so if you want to pursue 
this you'd maybe be better off checking out your local colleges.

Good luck with your research.

Bobby
bobby@catalase.com