Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Instittute

This event addresses: This course is designed to integrate the basic theoretical and technical concepts of psychodynamic therapy with clinical material from therapy with children/adolescents who are functioning at different developmental stages and with varying types of presenting psychopathology. The readings will focus on the topics of therapeutic engagement and alliance, deepening treatment, transference, countertransference and resistance as they apply to work with children, adolescents, and parents. The faculty instructors will present illustrative clinical material. For those who have participated in the three previous semesters of this child and adolescent psychotherapy program, the course will involve a revisiting of these concepts with more depth and a different exposure to the seminal psychoanalytic literature. The course is also suitable for participants who have not participated in the earlier classes.

This 15 – week, one-semester clinical conference will focus on discussion of process material from clinical cases presented by both instructors and participants. The discussions will integrate the clinical material with psychodynamic understandings of development, psychopathology, and technique. This class is designed for persons seeking introductory or intermediate level exposure to psychodynamic work with children.