Richard Metzner Psychotherapy Scholarship Fund
Teaching the value of the doctor-patient relationship and the importance of the practice of psychotherapy by psychiatrists is vital to the PCFA mission. The PCFA encourages residents to establish, as part of their professional identity, the skills and capacity to conduct psychotherapy and to be able to effectively use the therapeutic relationship for healing and change.
In support of these efforts, the PCFA is pleased to offer the Richard Metzner Psychotherapy Scholarship Fund in recognition of Dr. Metzner’s generous support of the PCFA and his commitment to the value of psychotherapy in psychiatric training. The fund supports psychotherapy training that a resident wishes to undertake but that is not offered through the training program. The Metzner Scholarship is meant to facilitate a unique and memorable learning experience that enhances the knowledge and skill of residents, deepens their identities, and encourages them to advance the practice of psychotherapy by psychiatrists.
The fund supports trainings in any established form of psychotherapy. These include -- but are not limited to -- psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, and others not typically represented in psychiatry training, such as acceptance and commitment, emotion-focused, somatic experiencing, Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, positive psychology, hypnosis and motivational interviewing.
