(Advance Registration Required)
Please Note: In-person attendance is encouraged, as it offers the most engaging and collaborative experience.
Online participation will be limited as observers through Zoom with some opportunities for responses and input.
Program Description
Psychoanalytic training institutes are facing challenges to the delivery environments for mental health services, and education traditions for psychoanalytic training. This retreat brings institute leadership together to explore and grapple with healthcare delivery models in competition with other treatment modalities (e.g. medication, manualized treatments), the lack of public awareness about mental health treatment, and increasing corporate interest for offering our professional services.
These challenges also bring structural changes to our institutes that impact leadership succession (need for volunteers), financial stability, technology demands, candidate recruitment and retention, engaging our stakeholders, and best stewardship of institutional resources. How do we begin to think about our future, forward?
The retreat offers an important opportunity for institute leaders to define and begin to strategize responses to these large challenges that we face, together.
The day will be organized around a keynote address with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, co-founder of PsiAN, followed by group sessions on related topics, and a final wrap up discussion of ideas that are generated throughout the day.
10:00 am – Registration
10:30 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:45 – 11:30 am – Defining the Challenges
11:30 – 12:45 pm – Psychotherapy at a Crossroads: The Algorithm Will See You Now with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 pm – Panel Discussion
3:00 – 3:15 pm – Group Discussion: The Future of Psychoanalytic Training
3:15 – 3:30 pm – Closing Discussion
Psychotherapy at a Crossroads: The Algorithm Will See You Now
Presented by
Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA
This presentation will outline the forces and factors, from within and without our field, that are shaping the mental health landscape, influencing the public, therapists, insurers, and policymakers alike. Misunderstandings about efficacy and “gold standard” treatments are common, and new technology apps and companies are redefining what therapy is at scale. From the insurance industry, to venture capital and private equity, to the educational system training therapists and the fragmentation of our field, there are many ways in which the work we do is threatened. This presentation will address these factors and identify what relational, depth therapists can do to protect and advance their work.
Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA is a psychologist with a private practice in Chicago. She is Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is a Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, the first psychotherapist elected to the board of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a fellow of the Lauder Institute Global MBA program. She is author and editor of Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation, and has published, presented, and been interviewed by the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, NPR and other national media on psychotherapy. Linda has a former career in business, with over 15 years’ experience consulting to organizations in the US and Latin America.
PROGRAM GOALS:
- Identify challenges facing Psychoanalytic Institutes
- Explore threats to sustainability including corporate interests
- Cultivate strategies to sustain and grow Institute resources