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Elemental Therapy

    I am an autonomous psychoanalyst in private practice outside the "mental health" system. This means I have no affiliation with
any clinic, hospital  or institution, nor do I accept any insurance payments. I work from my office at home, and I only see patients one day a week, currently Thursdays. As well as in-person therapy, however, I also work with patients on the phone, by Skype and by e-mail. Sometimes I have small group sessions of 5-6 people, but most of the work I do is one-on-one. I adhere to no particular system or methodology, so the kind of work I do depends your needs, but I always work with the unconscious. This means I am especially interested in helping people to understand their deeper motives, drives and impulses. I like to work with dreams and free association, and I am especially interested in long-term, deeply-focused psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I work best with people who are interested in their own thought-processes and who are committed to increased self-understanding. Much of my work has been with artists, writers and musicians who bring their creative process into their therapeutic work.

 My Training and Credentials

    I have a PhD in Psychoanalysis from the Hattie Rosenthal School of Psychoanalysis at Heed University. I was also a Fellow at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, and I trained for two years at the Washington Square Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in New York, where I also underwent a training analysis. Although I have worked with many different kinds of patients, most of my work has been with people who are interested in understanding and enhancing their own creative process. I have also done a lot of work with fetishes, phobias and sexual issues, including problems relating to gender identity, and relationship dynamics. I do some couples therapy, but I do not work with children. I am unable to write prescriptions for medication, although I am happy to make psychiatric referrals and consultations.

Cost and Payment

 Psychotherapy should be available to all who need it. I operate on a sliding scale; my patients pay what they can easily afford. This usually means anything between $30 and $100 for an hourly session. For telephone, e-mail and Skype sessions, I usually charge $75 for an hourly session. These fees are always negotiable, however.

Contact

If you are interested in setting up an appointment for a free consultation, you can e-mail me at mbrottma@mica.edu

Publications and Case Studies

You can read some of my case studies and publications here:

Psychoanalysis and Magic: Then and Now, American Imago, Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2009, pp. 471-489.
The Company Man: A Case of White Collar Crime (offprint, pdf) American Journal of Psychoanalysis, May 2009.
The Two Freuds-The Cultural and the Clinical, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 July 2004
The Healing Power of Facebook, Counterpunch, January 11, 2010