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APPLYING LACANIAN CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Join us Tuesdays at 10AM for “Applying Lacanian Concepts in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” from October 28 to December 16.
TITLE: Applying Lacanian Concepts in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DATE: Tuesdays 10AM - 11AM (10/28 | 11/04 | 11/11 | 11/18 | 11/25 | 12/02 | 12/09 | 12/16
CREDITS: This event fulfills 8 Continuing Education credits for licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT), and licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) who attend all 8 sessions.
PRESENTERS: Alan Karbelnig, PhD, ABPP
REGISTRATION: Open until 10/28/2025
SYNOPSIS: This eight-week course will enable participants to understand key psychoanalytic and philosophical concepts from the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, with a special emphasis on their clinical applications.
MATERIALS: Participants will receive a pdf document, via email, that will contain all the readings for the course.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: By the end of this CPA-OPD-approved event, participants will be able to:
Utilize the concept of the ego versus the self when providing interpretations to patients.
Apply the mirror stage when working with identity disturbances, including patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID).
Alter interventions with traumatized patients by understanding how any unexpected encounter with the Real creates unbearable anxiety.
Lessen patients’ inhibitions and thereby increase their personal freedom by applying the concept of the Big Other.
Address patients’ problems with either low or excessive motivation by understanding the nature of Desire.