The institute includes post-graduate psychoanalytic education, the Magistracy of Humanitarian and Social Sciences on Psychology, counseling centers, and a publishing house.
The curriculum includes history, theory, methods and techniques of classical psychoanalysis and the main contemporary psychodynamic approaches.
Students completing the course earn a National Diploma of Specialist in retraining within specialization in “Practical Psychology (psychoanalysis).” The institute conducts research on psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic, socially-psychological and socially-economic problems.
The chairperson of the Department of the History and Theory of Psychoanalysis is Svetlana Bondareva, a psychoanalyst with a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
She specializes in working with children and adolescents, a chairperson of the section of child psychoanalysis In 2011 a project called Magistracy of Humanitarian and Social Sciences on Psychology was started.
It is designed for students who plan to continue their education in doctoral studies or conduct professional activities at a higher level.