One-Year Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Every mental health professional potentially has a therapeutic relationship with everyone with whom he or she has contact. Our therapeutic relationships extend beyond the people to whom we provide direct services. Our relationships with co-workers, administrators, and allied professionals and staff parallel the therapist-patient relationship in that such relationships are influenced by the dynamic interplay of thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and feelings that lie outside of our conscious awareness. These unconscious processes have powerful influences on the success or failure of these relationships.

Analytic thinking - a way of thinking that seeks to understand the contribution of these unconscious thought processes - is a useful tool in helping us to more fully understand all of our relationships. It also helps us to more fully understand ourselves. In addition, it is a very potent antidote for "burn-out".

The Suffolk Institute's One-Year Program has been designed to provide mental health professionals with an intensive experience in learning how to think analytically, and to use those skills in working with people, whether they are clients, patients, colleagues, or co-workers, in a wide variety of settings in which they work and live.

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