This is a one year, twice monthly, course. It is for beginning or experienced individual or family psychotherapists who wish to learn about individual and couple therapy using British Object Relations.
Individual and Couple Object Relations therapy use the same theoretical
construct, that of establishing a holding environment, which includes the
establishment of a therapeutic setting to foster the relationship between
the therapist and patient-or patients when seeing a couple. The early relationships
the individual had in his or her family of origin influence the transference
to the therapist. In couple therapy, these early relationships are not only
recreated in the transference but also between the partners, and influence
how they perceive each other.
When two people join together-whether individual and therapist or members
of a couple-each brings a variety of unconscious assumptions, sometimes
shared, which determine how both parties experience and relate to each other.
These assumptions carry the seeds of both healthy and unhealthy functioning.
To free the individual or couple for further growth, the therapist must
both make those assumptions conscious and help the individual or partners
understand their roots. The therapist's use of self, via his or her own
countertransference, becomes a vehicle by which patients, through insight
and interpretation, are helped to make change. We, therefore, encourage
therapists to have their own personal therapy so that their own issues do
not interfere with the patient's issues.
By the end of the program, the student's comprehension of psychodynamic
development and his/her clinical skills in working with individuals and
couples should be greatly expanded.
Since learning takes place in a variety of ways, the training program
works by placing the student in a variety of settings. Each session in the
program includes the following:
·Small group supervision. Frank and Fox.(Limited
to two groups, one of beginning and one of experienced students). An ongoing
case presentation provides an opportunity to see, from the unfolding therapeutic
process, how unconscious mental life affects individuals' and couples' treatment.
·Didactic and clinical seminars. These develop the
therapist's theoretical framework and clinical understanding to clarify
his/her role in helping patients-both individuals and couples. Theorists
such as Bion, Klein, Fairbairn, Dicks, Winnicott, and other theorists will
be studied.
·Large group consultation. Case observation based
on live interviews and students' own cases helps the student in his/her
learning.
·Group process. These small groups help the student
digest and integrate the events of the day.
·Individual supervision. Recommended, but not required.
For the 1996-97 academic year, the training group will meet 18 times,
on Fridays, usually the first and third Friday of each month, from 1:00
PM-6:00 PM. Students will attend the Spring conference on Envy on a date
to be announced.
The program's $3400 tuition includes all items listed above, except optional
individual supervision, fees for which range from $75 to $100. There is
a $100 fee for initial registration. A deposit of $900 is required by July
8, 1996. Both are nonrefundable. The remaining tuition is paid in 3 payments
of $800 each.
A certificate is issued upon program completion.
Space is limited to 12 members per group.
The Klein/Bion program is an ongoing monthly seminar, for beginning or
experienced psychotherapists, to study the theories of Melanie Klein and
W.R. Bion. Clinical presentations are included. The group meets Saturdays
from10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M., nine times over the course of the
year. There is a commitment of $1200 for the year to cover all 9 sessions
and the Spring conference on Envy.
To arrange an interview for either the Object Relations Program
or the Klein/Bion Program, call (212) 307-7217
Top
