Blanton Peale Counseling Center

The Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center is an accredited post-graduate educational institute and mental health service organization founded in 1937 by internationally renowned Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and minister at New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church, and the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Smiley Blanton who had trained in psychoanalysis in Vienna with Sigmund Freud. Blanton-Peale was established to address the challenges of contemporary life by bringing together the insights of psychology and psychiatry and the wisdom of the great spiritual traditions.