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Welcome to the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council!
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MPC Announcements


(6/22/2008) - 2008-2009 MPC Courses
See the new line-up of MPC courses for the 2008 academic year.
Adult analysis: click here
Child analysis: click here

MPC prsents a fascinating array of Professional and Community Development Courses. 
For a full display, click here.

PCD courses starting in September include

Ethics and Practice
Parenting from the Inside Out
Applications of Psychanalytic Theory to Social Work Practice




 (7/25/2008) - Next Meeting - September 21, 2008

Constructing the Self from the Outside In: the Moral Lens in Psychoanalysis

Presented by Naomi Friereich, LMSW. 

This presentation will explore the subtle effects
of conscious and unconscious moral bias in the psychoanalytic space.
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Current Discussion Paper: Four Modes of Listening in Psychotherapy
Author: David B. Klein, Ph.D.      Click here to read the full version.

"FOUR MODES OF LISTENING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

David B. Klein, Ph.D.



As our patients speak, how do we listen? For what are we listening? These are important questions, for our primary activity in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is listening to the patient. We probably spend more time listening than performing any other therapeutic function. More important than the amount of time spent, however, is the fact that our spoken interventions, which are of undisputed import, in many ways flow from our listening. And our formulations, which often are created outside the sessions and constitute our overarching understanding of the patient, are also based on what we have heard as list..."