The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute supports a broad network of therapeutic, educational and research activities in southeastern Michigan.

Founded in 1957 as the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute for the training of mental health professionals in psychoanalysis, the institution has increasingly turned to addressing the mental health needs of its community, from affordable psychotherapy to a wide array of training opportunities for mental health professionals, teachers, and the general public, as well as consultation and outreach to  social service agencies, universities and businesses, and community-based advocacy and ethnic groups.

MPI's faculty of over a 100 clinician/educators teach extensively at Wayne State University, University of Detroit/Mercy, Henry Ford Health System, Madonna University, University of Michigan, Medical College of Ohio, and Michigan State University. Faculty consultation and outreach activities include:

• long-standing consultation relationships with community agencies, e.g., Starfish Family Services, Wayne County Community Mental Health, Southeast Michigan Hospice Organization, Kadima (adult mental illness), Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Gilda's Club for Cancer Survivors and Their Families, and others; a Professional Educators Program which, for more than ten years, has consulted and presented inservice training throughout the tri-county area on such topics as: anxiety and depression in children and adolescents; effects of life and family disruptions on learning and development; working with parents; bullying; effects of abuse on learning;
• consultation and inservice training for Visteon  on employee management issues;
• parenting series presented by our emerging Center for Early Childhood Development, on such topics such as discipline and limit setting; the anxious child; understanding children¹s anger and aggression; sibling issues;
• the Institute Library, one of the most comprehensive in the state, with over 1,500 volumes and major journals, available to mental health professionals, students, academics and interested members of the public;
  programs, for the public as well as therapists, dealing with inter-ethnic, cultural and therapeutic issues through Liaison Committees to the African-American, Arab-Chaldean and South-Asian Communities;  most recently a Liaison Committee to the Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) Community has developed a program for gay and lesbian parents.

Through its Continuing Education Division, MPI is the primary provider of advanced continuing education for mental health professionals in southeastern Michigan. It offers two 2-year training programs, for adult and for child and adolescent psychotherapy, designed to enhance the skills of working therapists.  A 1-year fellowship designed to acquaint the new mental health professional with analytic ideas was just formed in 2003.  Annual classes offered by the Continuing Education Division provide 6-to-8-week courses on  topical and clinical matters with offerings for both new and experienced practitioners. Mental health professionals and students in psychiatry, social work, psychology, education, and nursing utilize the knowledge they gain through participation in programs in hospitals, schools, social service agencies, prisons, and mental health services throughout the metropolitan area.

Through its Treatment Clinic, MPI provides reduced-fee services to adolescents, children and families who would otherwise be unable to afford mental health treatment. The Treatment Clinic offers evaluation and low-fee psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to the public, adults and children.  Most services are provided at our offices in Farmington Hills and Ann Arbor; others are offered in the tri-county private offices of affiliated professionals. During fiscal year 2001, analysts-in-training provided more than 4,800 hours of low- and moderate-fee psychoanalysis, while the Treatment Clinic¹s staff therapists provided about 1000 hours of reduced-fee psychotherapy. In addition, hundreds of hours of telephone triage and referrals are provided at no charge by clinical staff.

With wide-ranging impact, the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (MPI) and its associated groups--the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society (MPS), the Association for Psychoanalytic Thought (APT), and the Students and Trainees Association (SATA)--offer a rich array of scientific programs, study groups, mentorships, symposia, and case conferences.  Added to these are a film series and an annual visiting professorship program. Together, the educational and training activities of these organizations presented approximately 75 programs in the course of 2002-2003.

As the breadth and richness of these activities suggest, the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute  is a vital organization fueled by the enthusiasm and dedication of its members to continuous learning and teaching towards the goal of providing the highest quality training and mental health treatment to the people of southeastern Michigan.