A WEBINAR - DISTANCE LEARNING
Course Title
Contemporary Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Contemporary Perspectives
Eligibility
Licensed and intern-level Mental Health Practitioners
Goals
The Refresher course will offer practicing psychoanalysts:
- A forum for critical thinking of advanced conceptualizations relevant to the theory and practice of contemporary psychoanalysis.
- An opportunity to integrate ideas from disciplines beyond of psychoanalysis (e.g. philosophy, history, arts, literature, politics) and to consider how to collaborate with other disciplines.
- A context for discussion of current ethical dilemmas.
- Ways to develop innovative strategies to teach psychoanalysis.
Description
The Webinar Course in Psychoanalysis is offered especially for clinicians who live and practice in geographically diverse areas and want to stay abreast of the rapid developments in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. Participants in the webinar will "meet" in cyberspace in real time by signing into a "seminar room" to engage in a learning process with senior training and supervising analysts from the ICP community. The course will be taught in such a way as to facilitate discussion about the clinical application of contemporary psychoanalytic concepts.
The webinar classes will meet for 2 hours from 11:00AM until 1:00PM on a weekly basis for 10 weeks.
Curriculum
- It is proposed that the curriculum include the following content areas in the didactic portion:
- Introduction and History of Psychoanalysis (Freud and beyond)
- Contemporary Perspectives on Infant Development
- Self Psychology
- Clinical Applications of Self Psychology
- Relational Psychoanalysis
- Clinical Applications of Relational Theory
- Intersubjective Systems Theory
- Complexity Theory
- Clinical Applications of Systems Theories
- Comparisons of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
- It is proposed that the educational structure be at the level of critical thinking and scholarship consistent with the needs of practicing psychoanalysts.
For more information on this web based program, contact ICP Administration at 310-207-8441 or
execdir@icpla.edu