Dr. Mitchell Wilson

Consultation, Teaching, and Study Groups

 

Mitchell Wilson is a sought-after consultant and supervisor because of his unusual mix of clinical experience, psychoanalytic wisdom, and psychiatric training. Having treated a wide range of patients often struggling with complex problems that require thoughtful and creative approaches to their clinical care, Dr. Wilson is both a generous teacher and supportive consultant who lays stress on the clinician's own style of working and helping them find their own analytic voice. The task is far less about learning a "technique" and far more about helping younger analysts and therapists to trust themselves, their "inner voice," and to become familiar with their natural leanings and biases. 

 

Mitchell Wilson has presented his work on psychoanalysis in the US, Europe, and South America, and taught study groups in the Bay Area for many years and more recently via Zoom to clinicians and scholars from around the country and abroad. Utilizing a mixture of close-readings of key texts and detailed presentation and discussion of clinical cases, Dr. Wilson's groups are known for their lively openness to conversation, informed both by his literary sensibility (words and style matter!) and a range of theoretical traditions from which he draws. While most influenced by Freud and Lacan, Wilson is fluent in several psychoanalytic idioms, including Winnicott, Bion, and Klein, and the Relational School.