Contemporary Psychoanalytic Therapy

Catalog description

The course emphasizes several areas of clinical interventions within the realm of psychoanalytic theory. Aligned with contemporary psychoanalytic research and practice, the course will explore in depth the nature of symptom formation and psychic dynamics. It will integrate different psychoanalytic processes of several schools of thought that have overcome the test of time: object relations, self-psychology, interpersonal psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalysis, among others. Emphasis will be placed on how the mind works, meaning attribution, how symptoms manifest, and understanding the developmental and typological dimensions of personality. At the end, the student will be able to conceptualize and understand the psychical structures of patients and to implement this knowledge in psychotherapy and different clinical settings.