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Relationally Focused Psychodynamic Therapy 2-Year Post-Graduate Certificate Program

          2 years                    4 intensive retreats                       32 consultation sessions

Did you become a therapist because you believe in the power of relationship? Are you eager to revitalize your practice with greater depth? Are you isolated in your work and looking for community? Do you desire more integration of relational theory with practical application?

Relational Psychoanalysis 101 - 8-week class with Erin Pierson and Brian Pendergast

Relational Psychoanalysis 101 is a class ideal for psychotherapists interested in exploring how to work and think clinically and theoretically in a manner that incorporates the subjective ways the experience of relationships forms our minds, personalities, and lives.  This class is essential to diving deeper into relationally-oriented psychoanalytic work, and will bring the participant into contact with some of the historical and contemporary writings and thoughts in the field.

The Pain of Abandonment with Franco Scabbiolo

Franco Scabbiolo, of Oxford, UK, will be coming to Seattle in September 2019 to give three talks at The Center for Object Relations on his revolutionary psychotherapeutic way of working with patients. Scabbiolo, long-time student of Donald Meltzer and rebel within the psychoanalytic community, has disavowed psychoanalytic dogma, exchanging it for a creative, spontaneous, and lively connection with his patients.

Guys & Dolls: Intimacy in the Technological Era with Danielle Knafo, PhD

The Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents 

Guys & Dolls: Intimacy in the Technological Era

with Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.

What is it that makes a doll the ideal woman in a man’s eyes? Why would a man prefer a doll to a real woman? The Pygmalion myth, in which a man creates the woman of his dreams, indicates that the appeal of a man-made woman reaches far back in time.

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