This series of six-monthly sessions, running from January to June 2025, offers an opportunity to learn basic psychoanalytic concepts and techniques, along with their application in clinical practice. Clinicians will discuss case material to deepen their understanding of these principles and explore their practical use throughout the sessions.
Over the course of the six monthly sessions, participants can expect to learn the following:
- Differences between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and other types of therapies, specifically the unconscious processes and the exploration of the relationship between client and therapist.
- Case formulation: Assessment and formulation of personality organization and functioning.
- Phases of treatment, therapeutic alliance, and theory of therapeutic action.
- Unconscious affect and conflict interpretation interventions. Connecting current repetition and childhood development.
- Defenses interpretation interventions.
- Transference interpretation interventions.
When
Where
SDPC
CEUs
Cost
Educational Objective(s)
- Describe the key aspects of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach.
- Conceptualize a case using some fundamentals of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
- Demonstrate understanding of the phases in psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment.
- Demonstrate how to use psychoanalytic psychotherapy interventions in treatment.
- Begin applying the transference analysis intervention with their clients.
Presenter Information
Benoit Vincent, Ph.D., is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an associate in psychoanalysis working in a private practice in Carlsbad, CA and a non-profit community agency in Escondido, CA. He also has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University in San Diego, and completed advanced training for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and academic psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC). He has been practicing for 5 years including working in school setting. He is a board member of SDPC. He has been running a business coaching practice for 10 years. Prior to his psychotherapeutic experience, he was an executive for a large corporation in charge of research and development for 30 years after working for the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
Carol Koenigsberger M.D., is a board certified psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst in La Jolla, CA. She received her medical degree from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, completed psychiatry residency at UCSD, and completed advanced training for psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. She has been in private practice for over 10 years and is a voluntary assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSD. She also has a PhD in Pharmacology from Mayo Clinic and has published peer reviewed articles in the field of Neurobiology.