Clinical Fellowship Program
A Unique Program for Training in Psychotherapy
As an educational institute fully accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association, the PINE Psychoanalytic Center has been training clinicians for over thirty years. With its renowned faculty, small, collegial classes, and close attention to treatment process, PINE is particularly qualified to develop a program for therapists who want to further hone their skills, deepen their clinical engagement, and find greater fulfillment in their work.
The Clinical Fellowship
This fall, PINE faculty will lead a small group of Fellows in a series of weekly evening seminars examining major psychoanalytic and psychodynamic themes and ideas. In addition to focusing on significant and inspiring readings, these seminars will also provide opportunities to explore the challenges facing therapists in contemporary practice.
Individual supervision of cases will be provided as an integrated component of the program, with Fellows choosing their supervisors from a broad list of PINE Center faculty, to meet at mutually convenient times.
This program will have a developmental focus and will strive to integrate clinical work and relevant theory. In addition to individual supervision, Fellows will have the opportunity to become part of an engaged and individualistic psychoanalytic community.
Who Should Apply
The Clinical Fellowship is designed for early career, mid-career, and senior clinicians who want to further develop and consolidate their skills in providing psychotherapeutic treatment to their adult, child, and/or adolescent patients.
We believe that learning is best accomplished in a small, supportive environment where free and open dialogue permits a depth of questioning and the rich exchange of ideas from which all participants may benefit.
Just as developmental theories enhance psychoanalytic ideas, and adult therapists learn from child clinicians and vice versa, our Fellows will develop not only from rigorous didactic engagement and close clinical observation, but from the diverse experience of their Fellowship colleagues.
Time & Place
Tuesday evenings, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m., from mid-September to mid–May (excluding holidays and with some flexibility for school vacations and make-up dates).
Sessions will be held in faculty homes or offices, in the Brookline/Newton/Cambridge area, with easy parking and access via public transportation.
Fellowship Curriculum Outline (30 Seminars)
We encourage our faculty to pursue their creativity and passions in the teaching of these seminar segments. What we indicate below are the general parameters within which that teaching and learning can occur. And while this is not a survey course per se, we are especially interested in creating a continuity of learning derived from a thoughtful balance of depth and breadth.
Treating the mind in the “age of the brain” (5 wks)
• What do we mean by a “psychoanalytic” psychotherapy
• Relevant models of therapeutic action
• The power of unconscious phenomena
• Private theories and public theories
How therapists see patients, how patients see therapists – and why it matters (5 wks)
• Transference--finding it, recognizing it, and working in it
• Dynamic formulations versus behavioral formulas
• Relationship models, and modeling relationships
• What our most “difficult” patients can teach us
• Listening in order to hear
Developing a developmental perspective (5 wks)
• Developmental theories in clinical practice
• How child and adult therapies inform each other
• The dynamics of trauma and “soul murder”
• The science of the developing mind
The therapist’s experience & use of self (5 wks)
• Countertransference – its meaning and value
• The place of self-inquiry
• Nurturing the self in the service of others
• Boundaries, and the risks of authentic engagement
The ingredients of successful treatment (5 wks)
• History, memory, repetition, and mourning
• Anxiety as an agent of conflict
• “Neutrality” & “abstinence” in contemporary practice
• The utility of dreams
The essential conditions for healing (5 wks)
• Hope and the capacity to bear painful feelings
• Love and its place in psychotherapy
• Realizing genuine therapeutic goals
• Making sense of an ending
Supervisory Options
Supervision of cases is critical to the comprehensive learning mission of the Fellowship, which is why tuition includes the opportunity for Fellows to work with experienced supervisors from PINE. However, Fellows who already have cases in weekly supervision with a psychoanalytic supervisor of their choosing may request to pay a lower tuition fee of $1500 which excludes the Fellowship supervision but includes all other benefits of the program. It is expected that the outside supervision will concentrate largely on the case or cases chosen for presentation, formally or informally, during the Fellowship year.
Application, Fees, and Additional Information
The program is limited to 8 participants. The tuition is $2800, including all supervision. To secure a Fellowship place, a $200 deposit is due with the application (which will be refunded minus a $50 processing fee if the applicant is not accepted into the program). The remaining $2600 is due by August 1st, although alternative payment plans can be arranged. Up to 60 CME/CEU/CE credits are available.
A $150 reduction is available for tuition paid before July 1st. Financial assistance is also available and should be requested along with the application and deposit (which will be refunded if financial arrangements cannot be worked out).
Fellows will choose supervisors, in consultation with a Fellowship Program advisor, after tuition has been paid. Supervision hours will be arranged at mutually convenient times.
Fellows will also automatically be enrolled as members of the PINE Society. In addition, an individual account to the PEP online psychoanalytic library (a complete library of all major psychoanalytic journals and books) is included as part of the Fellowship.
For questions regarding the application, please contact:
Alice Rapkin – (781)449-8365 or office@pineanalysis.org.
For program questions, please contact:
Charles Morgan, Chair, Clinical Fellowship Program – (617) 608-1404 or morgancharles@earthlink.net.
Fellowship Readings
Readings will be drawn from the major psychoanalytic traditions: Ego Psychology, Object Relations, Kleinian, Lacanian, Self-Psychology, Relational, Interpersonal, as well as relevant sources from literature, poetry, history, sociology, and cultural studies.
Authors may include: Freud, Ferenzci, Klein, Winnicott, Fairbairn, Mahler, Stern, Fonagy, Mitchell, Hoffman, Renik, Gardner, Busch, Schwaber, Ornstein, Benjamin, Bollas, Davies, Havens, McWilliams, Kohut, McLaughlin, Casement, Phillips, Russell, Ogden, Loewald, Shengold, and others.
The PINE Psychoanalytic Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap, or sexual preference (as defined by Massachusetts law) in the administration of its programs and activities. PINE Psychoanalytic Center seeks to achieve diversity among its members.
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