New Directions: Writing and Critical Thinking from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis is now taking applications for the New Directions: Writing and Critical Thinking From A Psychoanalytic Perspective Program.
A three-year postgraduate training program, New Directions brings together clinicians, academicians, and writers in an environment designed to foster intellectual growth and enhance participants’ ability to write about personal and professional topics. At once emotionally supportive and intellectually challenging, New Directions offers a unique psychoanalytic experience.
Each year, over the course of three weekends plus optional summer and winter retreats, the New Directions community gathers to explore and write about subjects of psychoanalytic interest. The range of conference topics has been broad: memory, gender, trauma, infancy, religion, play, love, group process and the psychology of the therapist have been the subjects, among others, of our weekends.
The faculty for the program includes psychoanalysts and writing teachers from area universities and writing programs. The weekends include both presentations on the given topic and a variety of writing components (groups, workshops, rhetorical analysis). The coming year’s weekends are Revenge and Forgiveness, How Therapy Works (what promotes change?), and Therapy in the 21st Century (the impact of our current political and cultural world on our work as therapists).
For more information and a link to our 2009-2010 brochure, please visit our website at http://www.washpsa.org/programs/directions/default.html. Or get in touch with us directly – Martha Dupecher (mdupecher@verizon.net), Bob Winer (rjwinermd@yahoo.com), David Cooper (dcooperphd@ verizon.net) and Kerry Malawista (kmalawista@gmail.com), all program co-chairs.
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