Martin J. Kaplan Ph.D. (N.Y.U. 1957) with
Rankian, Rogerian, Freudian and neo-Freudian training,
Adlerian training, cognitive and now back to Rank/Rogers.
Co-founder of Eugenia Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Kaplan, with
Ph.D. from New York University, has over 35 years
experience, which includes extensive and intensive training
in many different therapeutic approaches AFTER his Ph.D, as
he sought a styles and approach that fit his personality and
growth and was the most effective. Today this is a blend of
Humanistic/Personal/Relationship (Maslow, Carl Rogers. Eric
Fromm), active participation in Cognitive Therapy of Aaron
Beck; many different forms of Freudian Psychoanalysis. (He
long ago deleted those techniques but the basic training in
the UNCONSCIOUS remains bedrock. Learning all the other
famous therapies, without some solid grounding in some of
the difficult concepts of Freudian thinking, seems so
relatively superficial. It may be possible to learn to play
a concerto by just learning that piece of music by heart,
but that is not the same as having first learned the scales
so one can play any tune required.)
Most or all of the above training was
obtained by working or studying with some of the most famous
people in the field.
- Bruno Bettleheim,
world famous child psychoanalyst, Berlin trained, author
of many books including Love is Not Enough;
- Theodore Reik, one
of Freud’s earliest personal students and colleague and
author of many books including, Listening With the
Third Ear
- Jeffrey Young
(author of two books on Cognitive Therapy) and the basic
Beck group at University of Pennsylvania, founder New
York City Center of Cognitive Therapy
- Kurt and Alexandra Adler, Adler Institute of New
York; the heirs to father Alfred’s Individual
Psychotherapy (invented the concept of The Inferiority
Complex)
- Various schools of training in
Family and Marital Therapies and an early Clinical
Member of The American Assoc. of Family and Marital
Therapists
Dr. Kaplan has extensive experience
both in outpatient work (for over 30 years always carried a
minimum of 20 private clients) while simultaneously being
Chief Clinical Psychologist --and as a co-founder—at Eugenia
Psychiatric Hospital for severe disorders. With such
hospitals mostly gone, such experience is difficult to
acquire these days.
So, what counts most? A warm, loving,
genuinely caring relationship laced with some schtick and
humor must be the setting, while the actual work is informed
by an amalgam of all the prior training and experience.
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