Suitable For

• Psychotherapists.
• Psychologists.
• Psychiatry professionals and psychiatrists.
• Psychology students.
• Mental health professionals interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
  
  

Recommended:Prior knowledge of psychoanalytic theory and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Completion of Sessions: Clinical Cases (Part 1) is recommended but not mandatory.

Overview
This advanced training program aims to deepen participants’ psychoanalytic capacities in reading, understanding, and analyzing real psychotherapy sessions presented in verbatim format. Through an in-depth exploration of personality structures, unconscious dynamics, and therapeutic processes, participants will develop a more refined clinical understanding of the relationship between psychopathology, personality organization, and psychotherapeutic intervention.

The training focuses on connecting clinical material with core psychoanalytic concepts, including transference, countertransference, defense mechanisms, anxiety, psychic structure, and therapeutic impasses. In addition to the analysis of represented clinical cases, the program incorporates supervision sessions based on participants’ clinical material, fostering reflective clinical thinking and the development of a mature therapeutic stance.

Teaching Methods

• Represented filmed sessions simulating therapeutic reality.
• Verbatim models of psychotherapy sessions.
• Guided psychoanalytic case analysis.
• Clinical supervision sessions.
• Analytic diagrams and conceptual mappings.
• Interactive group discussions and reflective exercises.
  
  

Training Duration & Schedule

Total Duration: 20 Hours

• Clinical Case: Highly Organized Obsessional Pathology

     * Excessive control and moral rigidity
     * Isolation defenses
     * Emotional restriction

Control within the therapeutic relationship

• Clinical Supervision Session

     * Limits of interpretation in highly organized structures
     * Unconscious collusion with defenses

• Clinical Case: Panic Attacks and Derealization

     * Psychic discontinuity
     * Annihilation anxiety
     * Affect–representation breakdown

Stabilizing the therapeutic relationship during acute states

• Clinical Supervision Session

     * Therapist positioning during psychic disintegration
     * Containment versus interpretation

• Clinical Case: Relational Conflict and Withdrawal Defenses

     * Attachment fears
     * Psychic distance as a defensive organization
     * Negative transference

• Clinical Supervision Session

     * Relational repetitions
     * Therapeutic impasses

• Clinical Case: Therapeutic Failure in Narcissistic Personality Organization

     * Narcissistic injury
     * Power struggles within transference
     * Countertransference involvement
     * Therapeutic deadlock

• Clinical Supervision Session

     * Therapeutic collapse
     * Clinical reconsideration and treatment decisions
     * Managing helplessness in psychotherapy

• Clinical Case: Existential Crisis

     * Loss of meaning
     * Collapse of self-narrative
     * Freedom, responsibility, and existential anxiety

The therapeutic relationship as a space for containment

• Final Clinical Supervision Session

     * Integration of clinical understanding
     * Evaluation of therapeutic positioning
     * Developing a mature therapeutic stance
     * Long-term treatment considerations

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Analyze psychotherapy sessions from an advanced psychoanalytic perspective.
• Deepen their understanding of personality structures and unconscious dynamics.
• Identify complex manifestations of transference and countertransference.
• Recognize sophisticated defensive organizations and their clinical implications.
• Differentiate between interpretive and supportive therapeutic interventions.
• Formulate psychodynamic hypotheses based on clinical material.
• Develop greater confidence in managing therapeutic impasses and difficult clinical situations.
• Apply psychoanalytic thinking to supervision and case formulation.
• Strengthen their capacity for reflective clinical practice and therapeutic decision-making.