Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center

Specialties

The Blanton-​Peale Institute and Counseling Center is an accredited post-​graduate educational institute and non-​profit mental health service organization.

History

Established in 1937.

The Blanton-​Peale Institute and Counseling Center is an accredited post-​graduate educational institute and mental health service organization founded in 1937 by Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church and psychiatrist Dr. Smiley Blanton who had trained in analysis in Vienna with Sigmund Freud.

The Institute was established to bring together the insights of psychology and psychiatry and the wisdom of the great spiritual traditions to address the spiritual and psychological problems of contemporary life.

To this end the Institute offers both licensure and non-​licensure qualifying training programs that incorporate a lively dialogue between psychology and spirituality in a manner that is non-​sectarian and open to multiple faith traditions.