Dr. Jacqueline Carleton Interview

Dr. Jacqueline Carleton

Medical Trauma

On Both Sides of the White Coat

Medical trauma is implicated in failure to heal. When a procedure has been traumatic, the patient’s tissues "bear the burden". Doctors can also be traumatized in many circumstances, which leads them to dissociate and lose the ability to empathize. Trauma treatments for both doctors and patients are beneficial.

Relational Psychoanalysis and Somatic Experiencing

Dr. Jacqueline Carleton

has been a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City since the 1970’s. While working on her PhD, she was invited to join a training program for research in psychiatry at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. It was there, taking classes with the residents in psychiatry that she developed the interest in clinical work that eventually led to private practice as a psychotherapist. She attended the Psychoanalytic Clinic as a research fellow at Columbia and graduated from the American Institute of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis before undertaking training in Reichian and Core Energetic therapies.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the U S Association for Body Psychotherapy as founding editor of its official publication, THE USA BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL and more recently of the INTERNATIONAL BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL, sponsored by the European Association for Body Psychotherapy.

Dr. Carleton has been a senior faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics in New York City and the International Core Energetic Institutes in Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and Mexico. She has also served on the faculties of the Center for Character Analytic Studies in New York City and the Snowlion Healing School in Southern France.

As neuroscience, trauma and attachment theory have entered more into clinical practice, Dr. Carleton has incorporated Somatic Experiencing, a neuroscience based trauma treatment into her practice both as clinician and consultant. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Integrative Trauma Treatment Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies to working on curriculum development

Dr. Carleton has retained her undergraduate interest in creativity, working with people in the creative arts and the healing professions. Her interests have included working with Jungian archetypes and myths (she has conducted several seminars on the subject), how sexuality and intimacy can constitute the modern journey of the soul, and how body psychotherapy, object relations, and imaginal work augment each other.

Dr. Carleton also has extensive experience working with those from diverse backgrounds, especially the Muslim Middle East. Dr. Carleton trains and supervises psychotherapists and others in related fields who would like to incorporate theories and methods of psychotherapy into their own work.