The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center

PPSC Learning Lab presents an online Zoom workshop - "Understanding The Impact Of Stockholm Syndrome". Sign up today here! mailchi.mp/ppsc/helping-p…

Sign-up today for "Understanding The Impact Of Stockholm Syndrome" - mailchi.mp/ppsc/helping-p…

Last day to submit your application to PPSC's 3-year, 4-year, and license-qualifying programs! (Deadline for our 1-year programs is August 15.)

We must be prepared to assume the existence in us of not only a second consciousness, but of a third, fourth, perhaps of an unlimited number of states of consciousness, all unknown to our everyday self. --Freud

I am not responsible for my unconscious, but if I do not respond 𝑓𝑜𝑟 it, I respond 𝑡𝑜 it—by rethinking it and re-creating it. Julia Kristeva

Virtual open house about the PPSC candidate experience is coming up on July 10. Register here to learn more: eventbrite.com/e/ppsc-open-ho…

“Comfort ye: It takes the best of us a prolonged search to surrender to the patient’s rightness, and to learn to hold our theories lightly.” —Donna Orange

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Melanie Klein's father spoke ten languages.

A few more days left to register for “Understanding The Impact Of Stockholm Syndrome” with Karen Landmann, LCSW, PC. To sign up, go to eventbrite.com/e/138269902299…

🔊 Happening Next Sunday 6/29 - "Understanding The Impact Of Stockholm Syndrome" - mailchi.mp/22f29f92ff6e/h…

It is not a departure from neutrality to call a spade a spade. --Roy Schafer

One priceless thing the patient learns in therapy is the limits of relationship. One learns what one can get from other but, perhaps even more important, one learns what one cannot get from others. --Irvin Yalom

The 'silence of the forest' is the clamor of a metropolis compared to the silence in my consulting room. This is a place to 'dream'. --Freud

If you buy a fridge, there are certain things you will be guaranteed. If you buy a psychoanalysis, you won’t be. It’s a real risk, and that also is the point of it. —Adam Phillips

Psychoanalysis is a lived emotional experience. As such, it cannot be translated, recorded, explained, understood or told in words. It is what it is. —Thomas Ogden

Psychoanalysis, in short, is based on the idea that talking is different to thinking; and also that surprising or shocking oneself in the presence of another person is of value. --Adam Phillips

Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person’s life revolves, not only when he is an infant or a toddler ... but throughout his adolescence and his years of maturity as well, and on into old age. — John Bowlby