Course / Course Details
Trainer: Dr. Elie Abou Chacra | Psychoanalyst
Overview: This foundational training introduces the principles and techniques of dynamic psychotherapy. It equips participants with tools for psychodynamic assessment, treatment planning, and the therapeutic process from initiation to termination.
What You Will Learn:
1. Understanding the core of psychodynamic theory
2. Conducting psychodynamic assessments and treatment formulation
3. Starting and structuring therapy
4. Navigating therapy stages and the therapeutic relationship
5. Mastering techniques of listening, interpretation, and intervention
Program Content (50 Hours):
- Introduction to dynamic psychotherapy
- Therapeutic work theory
- Evaluation and formulation
- Starting therapy
- Empathy and neutrality
- Core techniques (Listen – Reflect – Intervene)
- Emotional life focus
- Resistance: constructive and obstructive roles
- Transference and countertransference
- Conflict, dream work
- Achieving therapeutic goals
- Repetition, overcoming, and documentation
- Termination
- Evidence of effectiveness from scientific studies
Total Duration: 50 hours
Dr. Elie Abou Chacra Licensed Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Educator, currently serving as Head of the Training Department at Nafsaniyoun Center. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology from Saint Joseph University of Beirut and a Master’s degree in Arabic Literature from the Lebanese University.
With over two decades of clinical experience, dr. Elie specializes in personality disorders and the integration of psychoanalytic theory with contemporary neuroscience, regularly delivering seminars and conferences for mental health professionals. Elie is the author of a widely read Arabic-language book on psychodynamic psychotherapy and He is currently preparing to launch a TFP training and certification center in Lebanon in collaboration with Nafsanyoun center.
Actually dr. Elie actively mentors young therapists through structured training programs, workshops, and clinical supervision
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