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Empathy and its accompanying sense of connection bring about a cohesive centered firmness of the self; empathic breaks and disconnection lead to the self's enfeeblement and fragmentation. This inner cohesiveness, which enables one to "hold" one's own reality, is a reflection of the connection within the relationship; that connection, in turn, depends on the empathic milieu." Randall C. Mason (1996). Imago, Relationships, and Empathy. The Journal of Imago RelationshipTherapy, 1(2).</span> </font></i></p> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <p align="center"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i><b>Where to find me<a name="map"></a></b></i></font></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial"> The Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago is located at the <strong>corner of </strong> <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><strong>Washington St.</strong></st1:address></st1:Street><strong> and Michigan Ave</strong>. <br>Enter at 30 <st1:place w:st="on">N. Michigan</st1:place> or <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">77 E. Washington St</st1:address></st1:Street>.<br>&nbsp;Take the elevator to the 19th floor, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on"> suite</st1:Street> 1920</st1:address>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial"> Parking: Grant Park North Garage.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">For more information call 312-263-4368 x9222</span></font></p> <p align="center"> <img alt="Center for Religion and Psychotheraphy Map" height="500" longdesc="Center for Religion and Psychotheraphy" src="images/map.gif" width="499"></p> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='width:374.25pt; height:375pt'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\brianc\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" o:href="http://www.margaretlmasoncounseling.com/images/map.gif" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]> <v:shapetype id="_x0000_t76" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" style='width:374.25pt; height:375pt'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\brianc\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_image001.gif" o:href="http://www.margaretlmasoncounseling.com/images/map.gif" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><span class="style1">LINKS</span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="images/cfrpc_logo.gif" align="left" width="88" height="110"><b>Psychoanalytic Self Psychology</b> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">developed by Heinz Kohut asserts that one's real or true self develops in an affirming, supportive and validating milieu and that connection with an empathic human environment or other is as essential to human psychological existence as is oxygen. In psychotherapy from a Self Psychological perspective the therapist and client embark on a journey together to explore and understand the client's inner experience. The outcome of such a journey is usually a new place or experience of acceptance and empathy for one's self and for others.</span> <br> <b>Center for Religion and Psychotherapy:</b> <a href="http://www.crpchicago.org" target="_blank"> www.crpchicago.org </a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="images/Imago_logo.gif" align="left" width="38" height="44"> <b>Imago Relationship Therapy </b>was developed by Harville Hendrix who wrote the best selling guide for couples entitled <u><b>Getting the Love You Want</b></u>. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">IRT helps a couple to develop greater understanding of each other. It provides tools for safe communication and helps each partner discover his or her barriers to intimacy. The nonverbal aspects of communication such as facial expression, eye contact, tone of voice, bodily movement, and timing of responses are crucial to the experience of connection or connectional disturbance. In couples therapy the partners develop skills in verbal and non-verbal attunement as a means of facilitating empathic connection. Imago Relationship therapy fosters conscious, intentional relating and uses committed partnership as a structure for healing, wholeness and growth.</span> <b>Imago Relationship Therapy:</b> <a href="http://www.imagorelationships.org" target="_blank">www.imagorelationships.org</a> or <b>Chicago</b> <a href="http://www.imagochicago.com" target="_blank">www.imagochicago.com</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="images/ADTA_logo.gif" align="left" width="61" height="79"><b>Dance/Movement Therapy</b> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> is a form of psychotherapy that utilizes the experience of the body and movement expression, as well as verbal expression. Dance/Movement therapy viewed from within a psychoanalytic/self-psychological framework asks the question, "What is the experience of the body or of movement, and what is the meaning of that experience for the person?" Dance/movement therapists are trained to focus not only on the client's verbal response, but also on the client's non-verbal response, as a means of understanding the essence of the client's world. Non-verbal expression, like verbal expression, is a function of the person's intrapyschic, interpersonal, intersubjective, and cultural realms of experiencing. The therapists' empathic response, through words and/or movement, enables clients to become aware of and appreciative of the meaning of their body/movement experience.</span> <br> <b>American Dance Therapy Association:</b> <a href="http://www.adta.org" target="_blank">www.adta.org</a> </font></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <br> </div> <div align="center"> <p><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/footer.lbi" --> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Margaret L. Mason</b> <br> <i>Center for Religion and Psychotherapy</i>&nbsp;<br> 30 N. Michigan, Chicago 60602<br>and<br>140 N. Lagrange Road, LaGrange, IL &nbsp;<br> <b><a href="mailto:margaretlmason@usa.com">margaretlmason @ usa.com </a></b><br> <b>Fax:</b> 312-263-4382 <br> <b>Phone:</b> 312-263-4368 x9222 </font><map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="234,25,396,43" href="mailto:ranmar.mason@prodigy.net"></map><!-- #EndLibraryItem --></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td><img src="images/shim.gif" width="1" height="441" border="0"></td> </tr> <!-- This table was automatically created with Macromedia Fireworks 3.0 --> <!-- http://www.macromedia.com --> </table> <!--------------------------- STOP COPYING THE HTML HERE ---------------------------> </body> </html>