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Master Series in Clinical Practice

Jointly sponsored by Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.

We are pleased to present an exciting series of one day conferences that offer the opportunity to learn from a group of professionals who are among the most senior, innovative and talented practitioners in the field of mental health. The Master Series affords the chance to spend a complete day with leaders in our field to consider the unique perspective each speaker brings to the challenging dilemmas in both theory and practice. We hope that you will consider joining us for the entire series at a reduced tuition or choose the programs most relevant to your own practice.

Cost per program 1 program 2 programs* 3 programs*
Doctoral Level Professionals $175 each $155 each $145 each
Master’s Level Professionals $150 each $135 each $125 each
Fellows, Interns, Students $95 each $80 each $65 each


*Discounts apply only for Master Series attendees who register for multiple dates at the same time:


On Being a Couple Therapist

Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Time: 8:45 am - 4:30 pm
Program No: MS27
CE Credits: 6 (CE/CME Credits)
Tuition: See table above
Instructor: Gerald Stechler, Ph.D.
Location: MSPP
Description: The complexities of the work are often daunting for the beginning couple therapist, and do not seem to become that much less challenging even after long experience. To be immersed into the throes of a troubled marriage or partnership is so powerful and so immediate, that we quickly find ourselves improvising, and even clutching at straws, rather than following a more deliberate plan. Part of this disanchoring is the pull exerted on us by being thrust back into primal family scenes, many of which remain inside of us from our own childhood in either an unmetabolized or dissociated form.
Objective: N/A
Pre-Requisite: N/A
To Register: PDF Registration Form; How to Register

Updated 8/19/08