The Derner Institute strives for the development of a culturally competent psychological model for psychodynamic psychology.  All programs are situated in a broad based psychological setting within a broader cultural or societal context--connecting to other fields, with applications to the problems of the individual psyche, culture, and society.  We strive to develop psychodynamic psychology as research based, sensitive to multicultural issues, and integrative of the findings from cognitive, social, developmental, and neuropsychological perspectives.

The Derner Institute educates students in the discipline of psychology--one that is grounded in both the social and natural sciences; and committed to scholarship, research, and practice.  We provide students at all levels with a rigorous, empirically informed education in psychology that prepares them to be lifelong learners and well-trained professionals with a  broad psychological foundation as well as specific perspectives.