THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

This event addresses: This workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee in clinical practice.

PRESENTER: BARBARA STIMMEL, PH.D.

SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2023

10 AM – 12 Noon

This workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee in clinical practice. Money, its real and psychically real meanings, always has an impact on the working relationship in psychotherapy. This is true whether the fee is paid by the patient, an insurance company, or the state. And telehealth has added challenges to respecting and working through this essential context for enactment. We will review some of the literature and then look at the fee in its practical and psychic force. Participants are invited to bring a vexing or successful example of the fee and its place in the work.

Learning objectives:

Participants will: 1) gain a heightened sensitivity to this essential piece of the therapeutic work, 2) gain an increased ability to work with patients on this real and symbolic part of the therapeutic relationship, and 3) leave with a more comfortable self-representation as a professional wage-earner.