THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: WHEN WORDS HURT
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Kimberly, a girl of five and a half, began therapy with a history of having been placed in three separate foster care settings: Over the course of treatment, there would be three more placements. During the first six months of treatment, Kimberly spoke minimally. She would routinely enter the therapist’s office appearing sullen and withdrawn: She seemed encapsulated in her own world. The therapist would often ask Kimberly how she was feeling or would attempt to reflect back to her what he imagined she might have been experiencing. All efforts to reach her felt futile to the therapist and were often responded to with folded arms and a shrug of the shoulders. In one exasperated moment, early in treatment, the therapist awkwardly asked, “Where are your words. Where have they gone?” After a long, painful silence, Kimberly quietly replied, without looking up, “I keep them inside…because the words hurt.” The therapist will present an account of his interventions and how, through using art and play therapy, he came to view the patient’s interior world and to understand more intimately her sense of rage, isolation, guilt and despair.
PRESENTER: Charles Bonerbo, L.C.S.W. Supervisor: The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child & Adolescent Program. Group Supervisor: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health. Faculty, Supervisor, Chairperson of Training Committee: Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Faculty and Supervisor: Training Institute for Mental Health, Couples Program. Faculty and Supervisor: Chinese American Psychoanalytic Association, NY and Beijing. Associate Adjunct Faculty: New York University School of Social Work.
LOCATION: 160 West 86th Street (outside entrance, between Amsterdam & Columbus Avenues)
RSVP: Space is limited. There is no fee but you must reserve in advance. For reservations: please contact Ivy Vale, Registrar, at (212) 496-2858 or email mitppnyc@aol.com.
Training opportunities, including flexible scheduling and financial options to fit individual needs, will be described following the presentation.
Refreshments will be served.
MITPP, chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, offers three certificate programs: a three year program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults, a two year program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and a program leading to New York State licensure in Psychoanalysis for those with Masters Degrees who don’t qualify for licensure in the established mental health professions. Matriculants see patients at the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, which is licensed by The New York State Office of Mental Health. Social Workers’ clinical hours qualify toward the LCSW. MITPP’s low tuition of $1,000 per semester includes all supervision. Courses are also offered on a non-matriculated basis.
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