Along with its involvement in teaching and supervising in the NYU residency program, the Institute offers a special track combining psychiatric and psychoanalytic education for residents who know early on in their careers that they wish to become psychoanalysts.

Interested residents are encouraged to apply to the Institute in their second year or later. The candidate's personal psychoanalysis usually begins in the PGY2 year. During the PGY3 year, residents are eligible to start formal classes in the Institute, and continue to be supervised in their outpatient work by analysts. Depending on the progress of the individual candidate, some residents are able to begin their first supervised analytic case during their PGY4 year, seeing this patient in their clinic office until the completion of their residency training.

Residents who have pursued the psychoanalytic track have often felt that it not only offers them an opportunity to get an earlier start on their psychoanalytic education, but also significantly enhances their psychiatric training through simultaneous immersion in analytic thinking and in their own personal analysis. Residents who are interested in getting more exposure to psychoanalytic thinking can craft individual programs, such as a reading tutorial at the end of their second year. The Institute works closely with the NYU residency administration to support residents' increased exposure to psychoanalytic theory and technique.