PSYCHOANALYTIC
THOUGHT and THERAPY
Bringing
Contemporary
Psychoanalysis
to
Northeast Ohio
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PSYCHOANALYTIC THOUGHT AND THERAPY
HANDBOOK
The core of Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center’s mission is to
promote the development and use of psychoanalytic thought
for the benefit of the community. Psychoanalytic thought
emanates from the theoretical base of contemporary
psychoanalysis and all contemporary relational
psychotherapies.
Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy is a program developed to
deepen the students’ understanding of psychoanalytic theory
and the psychoanalytic psychotherapies that have branched
from psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy is
sponsored by the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. The Center
is an approved Institute of the American Psychoanalytic
Association.
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Why Study Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
 To enhance your clinical skills by understanding
unconscious motivation and the deeper working of the
mind.
 To increase self-awareness, emotional depth, and
empathy facilitating identification of the hidden meanings
behind repetitive self defeating behaviors that cause
emotional pain in relationships and work.
 To broaden and deepen your knowledge of the human
mind and the body-mind interactions.
 To apply analytic principles to diverse communities and
social problems.
 To add a psychoanalytic perspective to your research.
 To advance your academic career and to incorporate
psychoanalytic theory into your work.
 To benefit from a personal analysis or psychoanalytic
therapy when appropriate.
 To participate in an extraordinary educational experience
which will challenge critical thinking on how the tenets of
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contemporary psychoanalytic theory informs societal
norms and cultural mandates in contemporary American
society.
Educational Philosophy
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center believes in integrating
learning and practice by exploring the many connections
among the prevailing paradigms: modern ego psychology, self
psychology, object relations, and relational. We see these as
complementary ways of understanding the complexity of the
human mind and relationships in illness and in health. Recent
discoveries in the neurosciences are becoming integrated with
psychoanalytic theories and providing more complex ways of
understanding mental events and mind-body interactions. We
support the combined study of human developmental theory
from infancy to old age, psychoanalytic theory, and technique.
Each participant brings his/her own unique experience to this
endeavor and thereby enhances the growth of all involved.
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The structure of the program
The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Track (PT) has three years
didactic curriculum with an optional fourth year. This program
is for practicing clinicians in mental health. There is an “Early
Admission” program available for students in mental health
who do not yet have time to participate in all aspects of the
program or who do not have the qualifications but who wish to
begin. Academicians who have an interest in psychoanalytic
thought and other non-clinicians are encouraged to discuss
options available for them. All the students of the Cleveland
Psychoanalytic Center, whether choosing to study
psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, or for
deepening scholarship, will take the entire first year together.
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Eligibility
Psychoanalytic Thought and Psychotherapy is for postgraduate
mental health clinicians. Those with clinical experience will
need a current license and professional liability insurance.
Non-clinical applicants will be considered on an individual basis.
Those who have an academic background but lack clinical
licensure and experience are encouraged to discuss programs
that can lead to full clinical or research training. Please inquire
if you are interested.
Psychoanalytic Thought and Psychotherapy Outline
- Three years of study of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in
weekly seminars (96 – 99 hours per year) with an optional
fourth year. Certificates will be granted at the end of the
third year. Those who take a fourth year will be granted a
certificate for four years. Continuing Education credit is
available each year.
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- Supervision/ consultation on at least three psychotherapy
treatments.
- While an individual experience of a personal analysis or of
a personal psychotherapy is not required, it is highly
recommended.
- Note: The members of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic
Center recognize that graduate students in mental health
and Psychiatry residents may not expect to be living in
Cleveland for more than two years. The faculty will design
a two year curriculum if there is interest. Please contact
us.
The Early Admissions Program
This Early Admissions Program is for those who are interested
in becoming psychoanalytic psychotherapists or
psychoanalysts, but are not yet ready to commit and for those
who are not yet eligible to train. Examples are those who are in
medical residency, psychology graduate school, or social work
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school. These students may apply to study with the students in
Psychotherapy Thought and Therapy and candidates in
Psychoanalysis on a part-time or full time basis until eligible for
a clinical license. Those who wish to matriculate in
psychoanalytic psychotherapy should contact Kay Q McKenzie,
M.D and those who plan to study psychoanalysis should contact
Laura Steinberg, M.D., to discuss how to proceed.
Mentors
Every student in the Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy
Program should select a mentor within the first few weeks of
matriculation. There is a list of mentors available. The mentors
serve without charge. The student may wish to choose their
mentor as their first supervisor with whom they will then
negotiate a fee for supervision.
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Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy Program
Shared first year
The entire first year is shared by those who plan to study
psychotherapy, those who plan to study psychoanalysis, those
who take this year to decide which track they choose to study,
early admission students, and those who study psychoanalysis
for other reasons, such as research or academic pursuits.
The first year
The first semester, Psychoanalytic Imagination, is an
introduction to ways of experiencing the creativity of
unconscious processes and unconscious meanings. It is an
interdisciplinary course that will examine psychoanalytic
process as expressed in the consulting room and through
cultural artifacts (film, narrative, poetry and sculpture).
Throughout the course we will be attentive to the role of the
body and of language in expressing unconscious fantasy
through metaphor and metonymy. Works of art and literature
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will be read alongside classic and contemporary texts of
psychoanalysis (Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, Ferro).
In Fall 2014, we will examine psychoanalysis as a literary and
artistic medium in its own right. In addition to studying classic
texts of Freudian psychoanalysis and those of object relations
and field theorists, we will explore the representation of
psychoanalysis in the modern imagination. We will look, for
example, at how post-war American film portrays the
rehabilitation of the hysteric through the patient-doctor
relationship, and how the “confessional” school of American
poets uses the therapeutic session as a basis for poetry. We
will also examine contemporary memoirs of madness, analyze
the short stories of A.M. Holmes, and evaluate the Freudian
“family romance” in film, TV (The Soprano), and graphic
narrative (Allison Bechdel). What we hope to accomplish from
this work is an appreciation of psychoanalysis as an influential
and intriguing model (and modeler) of human consciousness, as
we test its validity across various periods and genres.
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Psychoanalytic Imagination is a three hour class that will be
held on a weekday evening.
The second semester will consist of two (one and one-half
hour) classes on the same weekday evening that Psychoanalytic
Imagination was held. One of these classes will focus on work
with patients using the students’ own case reports. It will
emphasize writing skills, assessment, and technique. A student
will present a case report to the class. The first week, the class
will focus on how well the clinical process of the treatment is
presented. Writing skills are the basis of clarifying the
understanding of the process between therapist and patient,
the formulation of interventions, and the impact of the
intervention.
This case report returns the following week and is then
discussed to emphasize assessment of the patient, case
formulation and clinical process. The third week, the class will
discuss a paper from the psychoanalytic or psychotherapy
literature relevant to the diagnostic considerations and
treatment consideration. In the fourth and final week, the case
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report returns rewritten to incorporate a clearer presentation
of clinical process and for further discussion of the clinical
issues raised by the report.
The second class will introduce contemporary psychoanalytic
theory. This includes theory basic to psychoanalytic thought
and research papers on the efficacy and effectiveness of
psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The
evidence based approaches to psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic psychotherapy come from the specific therapies
studies: studies: mentalization based therapies (MBT),
transference focused psychotherapy, short term manual based,
and neuropsychoanalysis.
The second year
The second year, the class will spend one semester on Theory
of Human Development. The second semester will offer Object
Relations theory. The second class, the case focused class,
consists of “Writing about Clinical Process,” Diagnostic
Assessment,and reading literature that deepens understanding
of the structure of the patient, therapeutic action, and studies
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particular psychotherapy methods. The first and second year
will have covered many of aspects essential to psychodynamic
psychotherapy, such as establishing safety, building a working
alliance, setting the frame and keeping boundaries, educating
the patient about treatment process, hearing the hidden
meanings of the patient’s own metaphors, and listening to the
transference. These concepts will be further explored in the
case material and literature. Each seminar will present specific
concepts of psychotherapeutic treatment of specific character
disorders (those who show neurotic level difficulties and those
with difficulties from earlier levels of development), and/or
treatment of symptoms keeping the whole person in mind, and
the impact of “fit” between therapist and patient
The third year and fourth years
The third year and fourth years will offer seminars on topics in
psychotherapy. Each seminar will be from six to ten weeks
long. At the end of the third year, a certificate for the program
will be given to those who wish to leave at that time. There will
be a fourth year offered, if there is sufficient demand, which
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will continue the study of the topic-oriented and case oriented
exploration of the use of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The
class will have input into which aspects of psychotherapy they
wish to study. There will also be an option to join the PTP
candidates for the courses on their schedule. During these two
years, the psychotherapy students who prefer a course offered
in the psychoanalysis training program may join the students
the class offered in the psychoanalytic track.
Faculty
Courses are taught by the faculty of the Cleveland
Psychoanalytic Center, Hanna Perkins Center, and invited
guests with diverse professional backgrounds. Candidates hear
from and present clinical work to visiting scholars in specially
designed workshops.
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Supervision/Consultation
Students who work full time will be expected to have a
minimum of three supervised psychotherapy patients to
graduate. Students who work part-time will be expected to
have two patients to graduate. The patients should be in a
minimum of once weekly treatment. Although it is not
required, experience with one or more patients in twice (or
more) sessions per week is encouraged. For graduation, at
least 30 hours of supervision/consultation per year is
required.
Some students will require a supervisor who has a
supervisory license in his or her field of licensure. These
supervisors will be noted on the list of available supervisors.
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Tuition and Fees
Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy
Tuition: $3000.00 per year ($ 1500.000 per semester). This
includes the administrative fee and continuing education
credits. Arrangements can be made to pay in installments
upon request. The tuition for Psychoanalytic Imagination,
the first semester of the first year, is $1300.00.
The tuition for psychoanalytic psychotherapy students who
are still in graduate school or residency will be $1500.00 per
year ($750.00 per semester). This includes the
administrative fee and continuing education fees. The fee
for Psychoanalytic Imagination for graduate students and
residents is $350.00.
Supervisory/Consultation fee: Arranged between supervisor
and student with a $40.00 minimum.
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Application Process
You may visit the Center’s website at
www.psychoanalysiscleveland.org to download an
application form. We encourage you to contact the
Admissions Committee to schedule an appointment to
discuss your plans, questions and to arrange an appointment
to interview for acceptance.
Contact:
Kay Q. McKenzie, M.D.
Co-Chair: Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy
Phone: 216-691-9420
kqm@earthlink.net
or
Carl F. Rak, Ph.D., LPCC-S
Co-Chair: Psychoanalytic Thought and Therapy
Phone: 216-228-0010
c.rak@csuohio.edu
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Classes begin in September
Admissions are decided on a rolling basis.
Early applications are strongly recommended.
Richard Lightbody, M.D.
Chair, Education Committee
Phone: 216-371-1268
lbody@roadrunner.com
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
2460 Fairmount Boulevard
Suite 312
Cleveland Heights Ohio 44106
Debbie Morse, Administrative Coordinator
dmorsecpc@sbcglobal.net
www.psychoanalysiscleveland.org
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Phone 216-229-5959
Fax 216-229-7321
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ACCREDITATION
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and
policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint
sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic
Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of _____
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the
extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and
presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board has
designated The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center as Approved Provider RCS109510. This event
provides one credit per hour of Continuing Professional Education to counselors and social
workers only.
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE
Program to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
as Approved Provider 14PO-341019020, maintains responsibility for the program. This event
provides one credit per hour of Continuing Professional Education to psychologists.
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