A British Object Relations approach to psychoanalytic psychotherapy is based on 80 years of creative discovery by Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, and many others. The approach rests on a commitment to openness in the listening process. It emphasizes the importance and complexity of the mother-infant and other early family relationships, and how they are internalized. This approach provides a conceptual framework and techniques that allow the therapist to address primitive and pre-verbal struggles and integrate them with later and more developed areas of personality.

We are pleased to offer our new Certificate Program in British Object Relations Psychoanalytic/Psychotherapy.
This newly designed program will focus on fundamental concepts of British Object Relations and how to use these concepts when thinking analytically about one’s work as a psychotherapist.

The new program is a two-year Certificate Program divided into two semesters each year.  Year one will be predominantly theory and year two, predominantly practice.  Year two will include a clinical seminar.  A degree in psychology is required. Personal therapy and supervision are recommended. 

For those of you that were involved in the previous Certificate Program, we ask that if you’ve taken three of the offered four years, you attend at least one semester – the first or second semester of year one or the first semester of year two.  As the content of the curriculum is new and so foundational, we encourage you to take the whole year.  If you’ve taken two of the previous years, we ask that you take a year of the new program in order to complete your Certificate, preferably year one.

We hope to encourage an enlivened cohort that can experience a two-year exchange that will inspire your work and practice.  The opportunity to learn together over this space of time can be rich on many expected and unexpected levels.  We look forward to sharing this with you.

For further information, contact Rikki Ricard, PsyA – FIPA at rikkir@comcast.net or 725-6920 x1.

Psychotherapy
Understanding oneself is vital to understanding another. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides the candidate necessary direct experience with his or her emotions, personal conflicts, and the rich scope of the unconscious. The result is greater openness to psychic discovery in oneself and one’s patients.

Supervision
Supervision provides support, continuity, and guidance in following a single case in detail over time. This deepens the integration of theory with clinical skills, enhancing professional development and confidence.

For more information
Director of Training: Mel Knight, (206) 282-5100 or drmelknight@comcast.net
COR Northwest Family Development Center office (206) 443-9045 or office@nwfdc.org

Faculty
Maxine Anderson, MD, PsyA-FIPA, Katalina Bartok, MD, Elie Debbane, MD, Theodore Dorpat, MD, Jeff Eaton, PsyA-FIPA, Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, PsyA-FIPA, Claire Foote, ARNP, Anne Glasser, PhD, Caron Harrang, LICSW, Ginger Harstad Glawe, PhD, Terry Hanson, PhD, Mel Knight, PhD, Stanley Mandell, PhD, Sue Neell, MA, Mirta Berman-Oelsner, PsyA-FIPA,, Robert Oelsner, PsyA-FIPA, David Rasmussen, PsyD, Rikki Ricard, PsyA-FIPA, Marianne Robinson, LICSW, PsyA-FIPA, Stephen Rush, PhD, Tom Saunders, LICSW, Stephen Sherhorn, PhD, Audrey Shiffman, LICSW, Susan Tesch, MS, Morry Tolmach, LICSW, Kris Wheeler, MA

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