Suitable For

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

Recommended: Basic knowledge of psychoanalytic theory, psychopathology, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Overview
This training program offers a practical introduction to psychoanalytic clinical work through the analysis of real therapeutic sessions presented in verbatim format. Grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, the program aims to develop participants’ ability to read, understand, and formulate clinical material from a psychodynamic perspective.

Through the exploration of different personality structures and clinical presentations, participants will learn to identify unconscious dynamics, defense mechanisms, transference and countertransference phenomena, and the relationship between psychopathology and personality organization. The training emphasizes the integration of psychoanalytic theory with clinical practice, enabling participants to deepen their understanding of therapeutic processes as they unfold within the consulting room.

Teaching Methods

• Analysis of real clinical sessions presented in verbatim format.
• Group-based dynamic discussion and formulation.
• Clinical case analysis from a psychoanalytic perspective.
• Integration of theory and practice through guided reflection.
• Interactive discussions focused on personality structure, defenses, anxiety, and
  transference dynamics.
  
  

Training Duration & Schedule

Total Duration: 12 Hours

• Introduction to Clinical Case Analysis

     * Methodology of clinical session analysis
     * Techniques used in psychoanalytic case formulation
     * Therapeutic objectives of clinical analysis

• Clinical Case: Hysterical Personality Structure

     * Defense mechanisms
     * Transference patterns
     * Infantile sexuality and its clinical manifestations

• Clinical Case: Obsessional Personality Structure

     * Internal conflict
     * Idealization
     * Control mechanisms and fragmentation anxiety

• Clinical Case: Borderline Personality Organization

     * Affective instability
     * Longing for fusion
     * Transference and countertransference difficulties

• Clinical Case: Narcissistic Personality Structure

     * Narcissistic defenses
     * Object relations patterns
     * Narcissistic injury

• Clinical Case: Neurotic Depression

     * Repressed sadness
     * Guilt
     * Unconscious needs for punishment and deprivation

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

• Read and analyze therapeutic sessions from a psychoanalytic perspective.
• Identify personality structures and underlying psychopathological dynamics.
• Recognize manifestations of transference and countertransference within the therapeutic relationship.
• Understand the role of defense mechanisms in clinical material.
• Link clinical observations to psychoanalytic concepts and theoretical frameworks.
• Formulate psychodynamic hypotheses based on session material.
• Develop more effective therapeutic interventions according to personality structure and treatment stage.
• Enhance their capacity for clinical thinking and psychoanalytic case formulation.