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ONE-YEAR INTRODUCTORY PROGRAM IN RELATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY, 2011-2012


An OPEN HOUSE will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2011
at the Stevenson School at 7PM.

To RSVP for the OPEN HOUSE or for more information and an application, please contact:
Alan Kintzer, Ph.D. at 212.744.3283, email: akintzer@optonline.net or
Maria Lechich, Ph.D at 212.877.0143, email: mlechich@gmail.com

Co-Directors of the One-Year Introductory Program in Relational Psychotherapy



NEW COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM

The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies is pleased to announce a new comprehensive and integrated course of study in Relational Thinking and Therapy, beginning in September 2011. This 4 year program will be organized on a trimester basis: two consecutive 10-week seminars, one didactic and one clinical, will be held on one evening each week.

  • Tuition is $1000 per trimester which covers both classes.
  • Classes will be held at The Robert Louis Stevenson School, 24 West 74th Street, NYC.
  • A complete list of the Mitchell Center faculty is listed on the Faculty page.
  • All applicants must be licensed in their professional mental health discipline.

The program's curriculum will concentrate on the evolution and clinical implications of the Relational Perspective as well as on the historical development of ideas within psychoanalysis in general, beginning with Freud and other classical thinkers and continuing with more contemporary authors. Clinical seminars will engage and illustrate fundamental concepts introduced in the didactic seminar with which they are paired, while at the same time concentrating increasingly on a refinement of a relational clinical understanding.

Theories will be introduced as grounded within their cultural, historical and political context, taking into consideration the "conversations" occurring within the field as well as the ideas in intellectual history prevalent at the time. The curriculum will emphasize a creative, comparative approach to psychoanalytic ideas. Recognizing that certain imagery has endured across time and theoretical culture and is thus fundamental to a psychoanalytic perspective, selected seminars will take a cross-sectional look at theories, taking up, for example, the issue of "The Baby" as seen through the eyes of Freud, Winnicott, Klein, Sullivan, Kohut, infancy researchers, the Boston Change Process Study Group, Fonaghy etc. A second sequence, "The Mystery of the Unconscious", will consider the many rich contributions of theorists from differing orientations to the topics of unconscious fantasy, sexual fantasy, unformulated experience, "not me" experience, the relational unconscious, dissociation, dreams, and reverie. The clinical implications of these concepts in frame considerations and the enactment of dynamic and relational issues, as well as the impact of culture and cultural difference on the analytic relationship and process, will also be considered.

A personal analytic experience will be required of each candidate throughout the duration of the program, with a minimum of two times weekly treatment being required but greater frequency encouraged. Previous analytic experiences will be taken into account in determining the particular treatment recommendation for each student. Intensive clinical consultation will be required on each student's work with three different patients representing differing treatment frequencies. Students electing to see patients three or more times weekly must have similar session frequency in their own treatment.

Students who do not have a private practice nor access to long-term psychotherapy patients will be referred patients by the Mitchell Center staff.

For additional information please contact us at: info@mitchellrelationalcenter.org